Resource Tag: SELF DETERMINATION

Please see SIEC #2003-0109 for another article by this author on this subject.

The file copy includes a correction published in the May 2005 issue of this journal.

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Parts 3-5 of this article discuss the limitations on the right of competent patient’s to refuse treatment, including the state’s interest in preventing suicide. Part 6 argues that the state has a legitimate interest not in preventing all suicides, but only irrational ones & that, conversely, the values underlying the right to refuse treatment only […]

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In this editorial, the author argues that because right-to-die advocates are being frustrated in their efforts to see voluntary euthanasia & physician-assisted suicide legalized, they are resorting to publishing methods of killing oneself that do not require physician assistance. With this information readily available, he asserts that more & more people will resort to DIY […]

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Please see SIEC #2003-0344 for the article from “Scientific American”.

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The first part of this article introduces & reviews American legislation & judical rulings regarding assisted suicide & euthanasia. The second part provides a detailed examination of judicial rulings from the states of Washington & New York & the Supreme Court. The third through seventh sections offer arguments from the perspectives of history, fairness, autonomy, […]

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Although the change in law regarding physician-assisted suicide is both dramatic & recent, the basic arguments for & against this practice have not really changed since the issue was debated by Williams & Kamisar nearly 50 years ago. In this paper, the author argues in favour of Kamisar’s consequentialist framework. Any change in law & […]

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