I.A new climate for death : 1. Medicine: Powers and problems -- 2. The laggardly state of the law -- 3. The new mood of morality -- II. The ethics of death by choice : 4. Ethics: How to do it -- 5. Four questions -- 6. Deciding for yourself: The objections -- 7. Deciding for others: The objections -- 8. From abortion to war: The gamut of legal killing