" Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references." --The New England Journal of Medicine
"Cantor develops a careful and accessible ethic of autonomy and dignity regarding forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment... " --Ethics
"A thoughtful, informative and sensitive text... " --European Medical Journal
"Professor Cantor of Rutgers University School of Law has created a scholarly and sophisticated, yet quite accessible, legal analysis of the subject of advance directives... detailed, exhaustively referenced... " --The Florida Bar...
" Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references." --The New England Journal of Medicine
What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies during and after the various forms of cadaver disposal available? Who controls the fate of human remains? What legal and moral constraints apply? Legal scholar Norman Cantor provides a graphic, informative, and entertaining exploration of these questions. After We Die chronicles not only a corpse's physical state but also its legal and moral status, including what rights, if any, the corpse possesses.
In a claim sure to be controversial, Cantor argues that a corpse maintains a "quasi-human status" granting it...
What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies during and after the various forms of cadaver disposal available? Who controls ...