RT Article
T1 Anthropologies of Hope and Despair: Disability and the Assisted-Suicide Debate
JF Journal of disability & religion
VO 22
IS 3
SP 352
OP 367
A1 Elliot, David 1978-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663287104
AB The physical criteria that determine who is and who is not eligible for assisted suicide imply that some lives-such as lives with disability-are less "objectively" worthwhile than others. Besides being degrading and discriminatory, this view is self-deceived. Aging makes both the nondisabled and disabled prone over time to experience increasingly serious disabilities, from impaired mobility to hearing loss. Anthropologies that undermine life with disability therefore undermine our humanity as such, risking self-hatred and misanthropy. As an alternative to this anthropology of despair, the author considers hopeful models affirmed by disability rights activists and by Christian theology.
K1 Assisted Suicide
K1 Disability
K1 Dying
K1 end of life
K1 Hope
K1 Misanthropy
DO 10.1080/23312521.2018.1486774