Few ethical issues are as complex and compelling as the right to die and euthanasia. Should physicians be allowed to help seriously ill people end their lives? Should people in special circumstances have the right to control their own deaths? Read the books below to learn more about:

• What is the history of the Right to Die movement?
• What are the arguments for and against euthanasia?
• What are the ethical implications of euthanasia?
• How do different cultures view the right to die?

The following books are completely free to read in their entirety from May 24, 2002, through May 31, 2002, with a free trial account.

The Right to Die Movement and Debate
  The Right to Die Debate: A Documentary History
       edited by Marjorie B. Zucker
  Last Rights: The Struggle Over the Right to Die
       by Sue Woodman

Ethical and Cultural Aspects of Euthanasia
  To Die Or Not to Die? Cross-Disciplinary, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives on the Right to Choose Death
       edited by Arthur S. Berger and Joyce Berger
  Endings and Beginnings: Law, Medicine, and Society in Assisted Life and Death
       by Larry I. Palmer
  A Time to Be Born and a Time to Die: The Ethics of Choice
       edited by Barry S. Kogan

Middle East Conflict

Mothers and Motherhood

Anti-Vietnam War Protest and the 1960s

Stress

Baseball and the Business of Sports

Presidents in Times of War

The Olympics and Sports

National Freedom Day

"I have a dream..."

The Lord of the Rings and J.R.R. Tolkien

It's Cramming Season!

Witchcraft and Harry Potter

Broadcast News

Veterans Day

Religion of the Middle East

Psychological effects of terrorism

Terrorism on Sept. 11, 2001

Planet of the Apes

Labor Day

The Berlin Wall