Arts of Dying and the Statecraft of Killing
Those supporting laws permitting assisted suicide (AS) seem to enact a thin morality, one that permits people who desire AS to get it in the terminal stages of an illness, and that provide safeguards both for those who desire AS and do not desire it. This article explores the way in which all AS leg...
| Published in: | Studies in Christian ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2016]
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Studies in Christian ethics
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America NCH Medical ethics TK Recent history XA Law |
| Further subjects: | B
Physician Assisted Suicide
B Assisted Suicide B Ars moriendi B statecraft for killing B Death B medico-legal apparatus B social imaginary for dying |
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| Summary: | Those supporting laws permitting assisted suicide (AS) seem to enact a thin morality, one that permits people who desire AS to get it in the terminal stages of an illness, and that provide safeguards both for those who desire AS and do not desire it. This article explores the way in which all AS legislation subtly frames the question of AS such that AS becomes the clearest option; ensconcing AS in law also gives a moral legitimacy to suicide. Thus, the morality of laws permitting AS are not morally thin. I describe how AS laws create a different social imaginary for dying in Western cultures, one that competes with the traditional Christian understanding. Legalized AS is inevitable in Western liberal democracies, and I claim that the Church, which transformed the ancient Greco-Roman culture, will once again have to create alternative structures, creating a new Ars moriendi, in order to challenge the modern statecraft for killing. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Response to Jeffrey Bishop (2016)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946816642969 |