Voluntary Euthanasia: A Utilitarian Perspective

Belgium legalised voluntary euthanasia in 2002, thus ending the long isolation of the Netherlands as the only country in which doctors could openly give lethal injections to patients who have requested help in dying. Meanwhile in Oregon, in the United States, doctors may prescribe drugs for terminal...

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Main Author: Singer, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2003
In: Bioethics
Year: 2003, Volume: 17, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 526-541
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