A chosen death the dying confront assisted suicide shavelson lonny on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers a chosen death the dying confront assisted suicide. Full text full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version get a printable copy pdf file of the complete article 376k or click on a page image below to browse page by page. A chosen death the dying confront assisted suicide in a moving examination of one of the most troubling issues of our time lonny shavelson puts a human face on the legal and ethical discussions that surround assisted suicide. Shavelson holds the liberal view that assisted suicide is an issue centered on freedom of choice that people who are terminally ill or disabled should have the right to choose to die if they are undergoing unendurable suffering the author believes that with the proper safeguards physician assisted suicide should be legal. A chosen death the dying confront assisted suicide author lonny shavelson edition illustrated reissue publisher simon schuster 1995 original from the university of michigan digitized