This study examines what is right, lawful or acceptable in terms of people controlling the time, manner and means of their own death. It explores some of the topical dilemmas confronting societies, individuals and states in the United Kingdom as well as the rest of the world.
Chris Docker is an established writer in Law and Ethics in Medicine, producing key works for the professions, academics and the public on topics that include living wills, death & dying, and human transplants. For over 15 years he has been one of the world's leading researchers into the reality of 'self-deliverance' - the methods to accomplish one's own easy, peaceful and dignified death - when all other measures to relieve suffering and indignity have failed. He is Director of Exit and has led the interactive workshops run for many years across the UK. Five Last Acts is his third book on self-deliverance.
Short bibliography:
* Collected Living Wills, 1992.
* Departing Drugs (principal author) 1993
* Beyond Final Exit (co-author) 1995
* Advance Directive / Living Wills, in: Contemporary Issues in Law, Medicine and Ethics (ed. S.A.M. McLean) 1996
* The Way Forward, in: Death, Dying and the Law (ed. S.A.M.McLean) 1996
* Living Wills, in: Finance and Law for the Older Client (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Gen.Ed. C.Whitehouse) 2000 (updated 2003)
* Ethical and Legal Dilemmas with Organ Transplants, in: Health Services Law and Practice (eds: M.Bloom, A.Harris,S.Waddington) 2001.
* End of Life, in: Health Services Law and Practice (eds: M.Bloom, A.Harris,S.Waddington) 2001.
* Five Last Acts 2007 (2nd edition, 2010)
