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  1. On the relevance of an argument as regards the role of existential suffering in the end-of-life context.Jukka Varelius - 2014 - Journal of Medical Ethics 40 (2):114-116.
    In an article recently published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, I assessed the position that voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide can be appropriate only in cases of persons who are suffering unbearably because they are ill or injured, not in cases of unbearably distressed persons whose suffering is caused by their conviction that their life will never again be worth living. More precisely, I considered one possible way of defending that position, the argument that the latter kind of distress—to (...)
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  • A simple solution to the puzzles of end of life? Voluntary palliated starvation.Julian Savulescu - 2014 - Journal of Medical Ethics 40 (2):110-113.
    Should people be assisted to die or be given euthanasia when they are suffering from terminal medical conditions? Should they be assisted to die when they are suffering but do not have a ‘diagnosable medical illness?’ What about assisted dying for psychiatric conditions? And is there a difference morally between assisted suicide, voluntary active euthanasia and voluntary passive euthanasia?These are deep questions directly addressed or in the background of the productive discussion between Varelius and Young.1 ,2 Their focus is whether (...)
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