Margaret P. Battin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, at the University of Utah. She has authored, edited, or co-edited twelve books, including The Least Worst Death (1994), Ethical Issues in Suicide (1982/1990), trade-titled The Death Debate (1986), as well as several co-edited collections, including Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia(1986), and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate (1998). She has also published Praying for a Cure (1999), a jointly authored volume on the ethics of religious refusal of medical treatment. She is currently working on a historical source- book on ethical issues in suicide.