claim was that he had faced a conflict of duties pitting his legal duty not to kill against his duty as a physician to relieve his patient’s unbearable suffering. • The patient is in a situation of intolerable and hopeless suffering (either • physical or mental);

Prologue.- Prologue.- The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia.- The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia.- Toward a Dutch Compromise: Perspectives from Government, Law, Medicine, and Academia.- Twenty-Five Years of Dutch Experience and Policy on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: An Overview.- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and the USA: Comparing Practices, Justifications and Key Concepts in Bioethics and Law.- Physician Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: An Analysis of Case Law and Professional Opinions.- The Slippery Slope: Are The Dutch Sliding Down or Are They Clambering Up?.- Teaching Euthanasia: The Integration of the Practice of Euthanasia into Grief, Death and Dying Curricula of Post-Graduate Family Medicine Training.- Comparing Two Euthanasia Protocols: The Free University of Amsterdam Academic Hospital and the Medical Center of Alkmaar.- Euthanasia Drugs in the Netherlands.- Empirical Research on Euthanasia and Other Medical End-of-Life Decisions and the Euthanasia Notification Procedure.- Palliative Care: Dutch Hospice and Euthanasia.- Euthanasia and the Power of Medicine.- A Religious Argument in Favor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide.- The Range of Objections to Euthanasia.- Catholic Healthcare and the Dutch National Character.- Living with Euthanasia: Physicians and Families Speak for Themselves.- Annie Asked, “Are You Going to Help Me?”.- “In Death He Achieved a Stature that He Never Had in Life”.- “The Moment Will Come When I Will Have to Kill Him”.- “Killing is Always Bad, But Not Always the Worst Alternative”.- “A Tragedy”.- “The Euthanasia Mountain Gets Higher and Higher”.- “I Will Not Leave You Alone”.- “The Worst Moments of My Life”.- “Euthanasia is Not So Much About Shortening Life, But More Directly AboutShortening Suffering”.- Euthanasia in the Nursing Home: “We Had a Problem Not to Let the Other Patients Know What Was Happening”.- “Just What Are We Doing?”.- “I was the First Physician in the Netherlands Prosecuted for Performing Euthanasia on a Patient Who was not a Relative.”.- Arlene Judith Klotzko and Dr. Boudewijn Chabot Discuss Assisted Suicide in the Absence of Somatic Illness.- What Kind of Life? What Kind of Death? An Interview with Dr. Henk Prins.- “What is There to Be Frightened About? After All, It’s Not Like I Am Going to the Dentist!”.- The Story of Laurens.- “I Walked Out Into The Kitchen; I Could Not Endure It”.- “He Was Dead Before He Even Passed Away”.- “We Will Have to Make of Life What We Can”.- A Double Life.- “You Will Do Well With The Children”.- “As Soon As Possible Please”.- “What Life Was Left to Live?”.- “I Don’t Want To Be Put Away Like A Dog”.- “We Are Living in a House of Death; Everyone Who Enters Here Will Die”.- Euthanasia: Promises and Perils.- The Hard Unanswered Questions: Issues That Continue to Divide the Dutch and Fuel Debate.- New Directions.