Contents:
1. Introduction: life, disability and the pursuit of human rights
2. Mending, not ending: cost-effectiveness analysis, preferences and the right to life with disabilities
3. Deadly current beneath calm water: persons with disability and the right to life in Australia
4. It's my life - it's my decision?: assisted dying versus assisted living
5. Disability rights and resuscitation: do not attempt reconciliation?
6. Disability, human rights and redistributive justice: some reflections from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan on popular perceptions of disabled people
7. Human rights aspects of deaths of institutionalized people with disabilities in Europe
8. Demonstrably awful: the right to life and the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children
9. End-of-life decisions in neonatology and the right to life of the disabled newborn child: impressions from the Netherlands
10. The right to life and the right to health of children with disabilities before courts: some Latin American examples
11. Access to care and the right to life of disabled children in Bulgaria
12. Unheard voices: human rights issues of disabled youngsters from Romanian institutions
13. The classification of newborn children: consequences for survival