Euthanasia in America - Past, Present, and Future: a Review of a Merciful End and Forced Exit
Michigan Law Review Volume 102 Issue 6 2004 Euthanasia in America - Past, Present, and Future: A Review of A Merciful End and Forced Exit Edward J. Larson University of Georgia Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr Part of the Fourteenth Amendment Commons, Health Law and Policy Commons, Medical Jurisprudence Commons, and the Supreme Court of the United States Commons Recommended Citation Edward J. Larson, Euthanasia in America - Past, Present, and Future: A Review of A Merciful End and Forced Exit, 102 MICH. L. REV. 1245 (2004). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol102/iss6/12 This Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Michigan Law Review at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Michigan Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact mlaw.repository@umich.edu. EUTHANASIA IN AMERICA - PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: A REVIEW OF A MERCIFUL END AND FORCED EXIT Edward J. Larson* MERCIFUL END: THE EUTHANASIA MOVEMENT IN MODERN AMERICA. By Ian Dowbiggin. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 250. $28. FORCED EXIT: THE SLIPPERY SLOPE FROM ASSISTED SUICIDE TO LEGALIZED MURDER. By Wesley J. Smith. Dallas: Spence Publ'g Co. 2003. Pp. xxii, 364. Paper, $17.95. Nearly 170 years ago, in the classic first volume of his Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville observed, "Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question."1 De Tocqueville viewed this as a peculiarly U.S.
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