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The Hastings Center Report, 1978
In spite of the almost commonplace ring which the title of this article has acquired in the course of recent public debate, one's first reaction should still be wonder. What an odd combination of words! How strange that we should nowadays speak of a right to die, when throughout the ages all talk about rights has been predicated on the most fundamental
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In spite of the almost commonplace ring which the title of this article has acquired in the course of recent public debate, one's first reaction should still be wonder. What an odd combination of words! How strange that we should nowadays speak of a right to die, when throughout the ages all talk about rights has been predicated on the most fundamental
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The Yale Law Journal, 1997
This essay argues against a right to physician-assisted suicide. It urges that the state has sufficient interests -- in protecting against abuse and diminished patient autonomy -- to justify intruding on any "fundamental right." It suggests that the previous substantive due process cases should be read as involving problems of equal protection or ...
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This essay argues against a right to physician-assisted suicide. It urges that the state has sufficient interests -- in protecting against abuse and diminished patient autonomy -- to justify intruding on any "fundamental right." It suggests that the previous substantive due process cases should be read as involving problems of equal protection or ...
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Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1988
ABSTRACTThis letter first discusses two meanings of a “right to die.” In the popular sense, the term refers to a right to refuse life‐sustaining treatment. In the strict sense, the term signifies an affirmative right to obtain death—a right to suicide.The letter then explores the legal implications of a suicide right.
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ABSTRACTThis letter first discusses two meanings of a “right to die.” In the popular sense, the term refers to a right to refuse life‐sustaining treatment. In the strict sense, the term signifies an affirmative right to obtain death—a right to suicide.The letter then explores the legal implications of a suicide right.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 1992
For some patients, a right to receive euthanasia will not enhance autonomy in the morally relevant sense. Even if these patients choose wisely whether to exercise their right to die, they will still be harmed by having been given it. Perhaps, then, physicians should have permission to administer voluntary euthanasia, but patients should not have a ...
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For some patients, a right to receive euthanasia will not enhance autonomy in the morally relevant sense. Even if these patients choose wisely whether to exercise their right to die, they will still be harmed by having been given it. Perhaps, then, physicians should have permission to administer voluntary euthanasia, but patients should not have a ...
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Depression and the right to die
General Hospital Psychiatry, 1999There is a complex relationship between depression and the capacity to forego life-sustaining treatment. On the one hand, the courts have recognized a constitutionally protected right to die for competent persons; on the other hand, psychiatrists have tended toward the presumption of incompetence on the part of anyone who refuses lifesaving treatment ...
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The Right to Privacy and the Right to Die
Social Philosophy and Policy, 2000Western 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 ...
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A Patient's Right to Die... The Easy Way Out?
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 1974Arthur I Holleb
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The right-to-die and the duty-to-die: perceptions of nurses in the West and in Japan
International Nursing Review, 2001Emiko Konishi
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