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Holding the Line on Euthanasia

Susan M. Wolf

Hastings Center Report 19 (1):13-15 (1989)

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When slippery slope arguments miss the mark: a lesson from one against physician-assisted death.Eric Blackstone & Stuart J. Youngner - 2018 - Journal of Medical Ethics 44 (10):657-660.details In 1989, Susan Wolf convincingly warned of a troublesome consequence that should discourage any movement in American society towards physician-assisted death—a legal backlash against the gains made for limiting life-sustaining treatment. The authors demonstrate that this dire consequence did not come to pass. As physician-assisted suicide gains a foothold in USA and elsewhere, many other slippery slope arguments are being put forward. Although many of these speculations should be taken seriously, they do not justify halting the new practice. Instead, our (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
The Right to Privacy and the Right to Die.Tom L. Beauchamp - 2000 - Social Philosophy and Policy 17 (2):276-292.details Western ethics and law have been slow to come to conclusions about the right to choose the time and manner of one's death. However, policies, practices, and legal precedents have evolved quickly in the last quarter of the twentieth century, from the forgoing of respirators to the use of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders, to the forgoing of all medical technologies (including hydration and nutrition), and now, in one U.S. state, to legalized physician-assisted suicide. The sweep of history—from the Quinlan (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
A Middle Ground on Physician-Assisted Suicide.James Tulsky, Ann Alpers & Bernard Lo - 1996 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 5 (1):33.details “[A] murder prosecution is a poor way to design an ethical and moral code for doctors,” observed the California Court of Appeal in 1983. Yet, physicians who have chosen to help terminally ill patients to commit suicide have trespassed on illegal ground. When skilled medical care fails to relieve the pain of terminally ill patients, some people believe that physicians may assist in these suicides. Others reject any kind of physician involvement. The debate on assisted suiczide and active euthanasia has (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Are the Distinctions Drawn in the Debate about End-of-Life Decision Making “Principled”? If Not, How Much Does it Matter?Yale Kamisar - 2012 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 40 (1):66-84.details I sometimes wonder whether some proponents of physician-assisted suicide or physician-assisted death think they own the copyright to such catchy phrases as “death with dignity” and “a good death” so that if you are against PAS or PAD, thenyou must be againsta dignified death or a good death. If one removes the quotation marks around phrases like “aid-in-dying” or “compassionate care for the dying,” I am not opposed to such end-of-life care either. Indeed, how couldanybodybe against this type of care?I (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
In a Familiar Voice: The Dominant Role of Women in Shaping Canadian Policy on Medical Assistance in Dying.Daryl Pullman - unknowndetails Among the many remarkable aspects of the June 2016 introduction of legislation to permit medical assistance in dying in Canada, is the central and even dominant role that women have played in moving this legislation forward, and their ongoing influence as the law continues to be reviewed and revised. The index medical cases on which the higher courts have deliberated concern women patients, and the legal decisions in the various courts have been presided over by women justices. Since the legislation (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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