Creating a safer and better functioning system: Lessons to be learned from the Netherlands for an ethical defence of an autonomy-only approach to assisted dying

The proposal to allow assisted dying for people who are not severely ill reignited the Dutch end-of-life debate when it was submitted in 2016. A key criticism of this proposal is that it is too radical a departure from the safe and well-functioning system the Netherlands already has. The goal of thi...

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Main Author: Holzman, Tessa Jane (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2024
In: Bioethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 38, Issue: 6, Pages: 558-565
RelBib Classification:KBD Benelux countries
NBE Anthropology
NCH Medical ethics
XA Law
Further subjects:B Ethics
B voluntary assisted dying
B completed life
B Suffering
B Autonomy
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