‘SETTING A PRINCIPLED BOUNDARY’? EUTHANASIA AS A RESPONSE TO ‘LIFE FATIGUE’

The Dutch case of Brongersma presents novel challenges to the definition and evaluation of voluntary euthanasia since it involved a doctor assisting the suicide of an individual who was (merely?) ‘tired of life’. Legal officials had called on the courts to ‘set a principled boundary’, excluding such...

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Authors: Huxtable, Richard (Author) ; Möller, Maaike (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2007
In: Bioethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 117-126
Further subjects:B Netherlands
B Slippery Slope
B Beneficence
B Autonomy
B Euthanasia
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