A lucid reflection on death and the need for a dignified death in today's society.

How does our society face death? How do we deal with it as individuals? What is a "good death" and how should it be regulated? What are the ethical limits of euthanasia as a mechanism for a dignified death? How does society deal with suicide? Do we tend to avoid the idea of our mortality? Are rituals necessary to face grief? Do advances in biomedicine allow us to seriously consider the idea of immortality? This book addresses the problem of death in the contemporary world from philosophy, raises perhaps uncomfortable but necessary questions and proposes some answers for debate.