Rethinking Life and Death

Download or read book Rethinking Life and Death written by Peter Singer and published by . This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our traditional ways of thinking about life and death are collapsing. In a world of respirators and embryos stored for years in liquid nitrogen, we can no longer take the sanctity of human life as the cornerstone of our ethical outlook. In this controversial book Peter Singer argues that we cannot deal with the crucial issues of the definition of death, abortion, euthanasia and the rights of nonhuman animals unless we sweep away the old ethic and build something new in its place. Singer outlines a new set of commandments, based on compassion and commonsense, for the decisions everyone must make about life and death.