Resource Tag: ASSISTED SUICIDE
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Suicide – not the Answer
This article presents the author’s perspective on assisted suicide. He questions whether money is the motivating factor in growing social support for euthanasia & assisted suicide. He addresses the perception that persons with disabilities have a lower, or no, quality of life & whether this belief also contributes to the recent emphasis on assisted suicide […]
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Post-Rodriguez era: Lessons From Foreign Jurisdictions
This paper outlines how The Netherlands, the USA, Australia, & Canada have approached the practices of euthanasia & assisted suicide. Jurisprudence, public opinion polls, legislative developments, & the positions of medical organizations & their members are included in the analysis. A number of arguments for & against the continued prohibition of the practices in Canada […]
Legal Restrictions of Physician-Assisted Suicide
This article examines legal restrictions on physician-assisted suicide in Germany where this practice is in principle a criminal offence. The distinction between active euthanasia & indirect euthanasia is discussed as is the intersection of euthanasia & assisted suicide. Judicial rulings & current legislation are included throughout the article to illustrate the author’s arguments. (60 refs.)
Assisted Suicide Under Swiss law
The authors first review the historical context that led to the adoption of Article 115 of the Swiss Penal Code in 1943. This Article provides for a prison term not exceeding 5 years for every person who for selfish motives encourages or assists in the suicide of another. The scope of this Article is provided […]
Physician Assisted Suicide in Belgian law
The legal status of physician-assisted suicide in Belgian law is ambiguous. The author of this article asserts that by not regulating physician-assisted suicide in the Act on Euthanasia of May 2002 the Belgian legislature missed an historical chance to clarify the legal status of this practice.
Innocence and Suicide
The author examines an argument against the claim some suicides may be morally legitimate. This argument appeals to a putative moral principle that it is never licit to assault an innocent human life. Related arguments in St. Augustine & St. Thomas are considered. Two possible senses of “innocent” are then explored. Mavrodes argues that in […]
Suicide and the Alienated Life
The author states he was disappointed when he failed to find a serious discussion about why the right to life should be considered “unalienable”. He finds this omission in the literature odd since, by definition, a right to assistance in suicide implies a right to the alienation of life. Because he could not find any […]