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  1. Would we rather lose our life than lose our self? Lessons from the dutch debate on euthanasia for patients with dementia.Cees M. P. M. Hertogh, Marike E. de Boer, Rose-Marie Dröes & Jan A. Eefsting - 2007 - American Journal of Bioethics 7 (4):48 – 56.
    This article reviews the Dutch societal debate on euthanasia/assisted suicide in dementia cases, specifically Alzheimer's disease. It discusses the ethical and practical dilemmas created by euthanasia requests in advance directives and the related inconsistencies in the Dutch legal regulations regarding euthanasia/assisted suicide. After an initial focus on euthanasia in advanced dementia, the actual debate concentrates on making euthanasia/assisted suicide possible in the very early stages of dementia. A review of the few known cases of assisted suicide of people with so-called (...)
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  • Disability, Ideology, and Quality of Life: A Bias in Biomedical Ethics.Ron Amundson - 2005 - In David Wasserman, Jerome Bickenbach & Robert Wachbroit (eds.), Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability. Cambridge University Press. pp. 101-24.
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  • The Incompetent Patient on the Slippery Slope.Whitehouse Peter J. Dresser Rebecca - 2012 - Hastings Center Report 24 (4):6-12.
    Most patients suffering from progressive dementia have thoughts, emotions, perspectives, and perceptions of a world of experience. Decisions about life‐sustaining treatment should incorporate a principled approach to evaluating what life is like for these patients.
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