‘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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Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2007
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Bioethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 117-126 |
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Netherlands
B Slippery Slope B Beneficence B Autonomy B Euthanasia |
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