Good Life Good Death: A Doctor's Case for Euthanasia and Suicide

by Christiaan Neethling Barnard

A strong advocate of euthanasia, the world-renowned heart surgeon explains his views on the patient's right to die, cloning, freezing bodies, and recombinant DNA and RNA research

Genres: Nonfiction

146 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

South African surgeon Christiaan Neethling Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in 1967.

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Reviews

[Olo · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[The Angry Lawn Gnome · Rating 4 out of 5]

The arguments put forth in this book are as fresh and sensible as they were when it was written thirty years ago. Publishing this must been an act of courage for Barnard, since at that time the ideas he presents were nowhere near as widely as accepted as they are today. I suppose some folks might agree with him partway, but the problem is suffering is suffering, and suffering is not the ennobling idiocy puked up by those who've never had to suffer themselves.

I only hope that when my time comes, if it comes in a hospital setting, that I have a physician as compassionate as Dr. Barnard.

[Marcus · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Generally, it is only the living who fear death, not the dying." (Chapter ONE, p 12)