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    The right to die.Tamara Thompson (ed.) - 2014 - Detroit: Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
    The At Issue series includes a wide range of opinion on a single controversial subject. Each volume includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives -- eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials and many others. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations to contact offer a gateway to future research.
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    (1 other version)A right to die?Richard Walker - 1997 - New York: Franklin Watts.
    Discusses the moral and ethical aspects of euthanasia and related topics.
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  3. Patients' Right To Die In Dignity And The Role Of Their Beloved People.Raphael Cohen-Almagor - 1996 - Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 4.
    The aim of this paper is to ponder the intricate issue of the right to die in dignity by focusing attention on the role of the patient's beloved people. I first provide critical examination of some of the arguments advanced by Ronald Dworkin. I proceed by contemplating relevant scenarios and examining three American court decisions: Saikewicz, Spring and Gray. The first case, Saikewicz, concerns a patient who had no family or other beloved people. I observe that this fact had (...)
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  4. The Right to Die with Dignity. A Discussion of Cohen-Almagor's Book.Elvio Baccarini - 2004 - Etica E Politica 6 (2):1-11.
    Cohen-Almagor's book represents a remarkable contribution to the discussion of the right to die with dignity. It offers the discussion of a wide range of topics. They include: the terminology respectful of human dignity ; the question of autonomy; the sanctity-of life – quality of life debate; criticism of some extreme quality-of-life position; criticism of Ronald Dworkin's distinction between critical and experiential interests and the consequences this author draws from it; active and passive euthanasia; the Dutch experience and the (...)
     
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  5. The Right to Die Revisited.Evangelos D. Protopapadakis - 2019 - In Proceedings from the Second International interdisciplinary conference „BIOETHICS – THE SIGN OF A NEW ERA”. Skopje, North Macedonia: pp. 53-65.
    In this short paper I will discuss the ambiguous and, even, controversial term ‘right to die’ in the context of the euthanasia debate and, in particular, in the case of passive euthanasia. First I will present the major objections towards the moral legitimacy of a right to die, most of which I also endorse myself; then I will investigate whether the right to die could acquire adequate moral justification in the case of passive euthanasia. In the light (...)
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  6. The right to die with dignity: An argument in ethics and law.Raphael Cohen-Almagor - 2008 - Health Law and Policy 2 (1):2-8.
    The article discusses the way people wish to die, analyzing the legal situation in countries that permit either euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide. While criticizing the Dutch, Belgian and Swiss models, I argue that the Oregon model is the one with apparently little abuse. Building on the experiences of Oregon, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Northern Territory of Australia, the article ends with a set of guidelines to improve the conduct of PAS.
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    The Right to Die by Firing Squad.Hugo Adam Bedau - 1977 - Hastings Center Report 7 (1):5-7.
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    A Right to Die?: The Dax Cowart Case an Ethical Case Study on Cd-Rom.David Andersen, Robert Cavalier & Preston Covey - 1996 - Routledge.
    First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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  9. The right to die debate: a survey.Rosangela Barcaro - 2001 - Global Bioethics 14 (1): 85-90.
    In the present article the concept of the right to die will be analyzed in English and American literature between 1990 and 1994.
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  10. Death, Medicine and the Right to Die: An Engagement with Heidegger, Bauman and Baudrillard.Thomas F. Tierney - 1997 - Body and Society 3 (4):51-77.
    The reemergence of the question of suicide in the medical context of physician-assisted suicide seems to me one of the most interesting and fertile facets of late modernity. Aside from the disruption which this issue may cause in the traditional juridical relationship between individuals and the state, it may also help to transform the dominant conception of subjectivity that has been erected upon modernity's medicalized order of death. To enhance this disruptive potential, I am going to examine the perspectives on (...)
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    A “Right to Die” Case in Practical Perspective.Claire C. Obade - 1990 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 1 (2):159-160.
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    The Right to Die.Jonas B. Robitscher - 1972 - Hastings Center Report 2 (4):11.
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    The right to die as a case study in third-order decisionmaking.Frederick Schauer - 1992 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 17 (6):573-587.
    Using the right to die and the United States Supreme Court case of Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health as exemplars, this article explores the notion of third-order decisionmaking. If first order decisionmaking is about what should happen, and second-order decisionmaking is about who should decide what should happen, then third-order decisionmaking is about who should decide who decides. This turns out to be an apt characterization of constitutionalism, which is centrally concerned with the allocation of responsibility for (...)
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    The Right to Die in California.Janice Lagerlof - 1987 - Hastings Center Report 17 (6):4-4.
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    The “Right to Die” through the Prism of Medical Philosophy.Sawadogo Joseph - 2024 - Open Journal of Philosophy 14 (2):488-497.
    The prohibition on administering lethal medication to a patient can be found in the first code of medical deontology (450 BC), which calls on doctors to practice their art with purity and piety. Today, in some countries, doctors are faced with an ethical and deontological dilemma: patients or their relatives request deep and continuous sedation in the name of the “right to die”, believing their life to be inhuman and unworthy! The very concept of the “right to die” (...)
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  16. Against the Right to Die.J. David Velleman - 1992 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 17 (6):665-681.
    How a "right to die" may become a "coercive option".
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  17. The right-to-die exception: How the discourse of individual rights impoverishes bioethical discussions of disability and what we can do about it.Margaret P. Wardlaw - 2010 - International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3 (2):43-62.
    Major considerations of disability studies—such as provision of care, accommodation for disabled people, and issues surrounding institutionalization—have been consistently marginalized in American bioethical discourse. The right to die, however, stands out as a paradigmatic bioethical debate. Why do advocates for expanding the volition and self-direction of disabled people emerge from the periphery only to help those disabled people who choose death? And why do the majority of people assume an unrealistically low quality of life for those with disabilities? This (...)
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  18. Paper: The right to die in the minimally conscious state.L. Syd M. Johnson - 2011 - Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (3):175-178.
    The right to die has for decades been recognised for persons in a vegetative state, but there remains controversy about ending life-sustaining medical treatment for persons in the minimally conscious state. The controversy is rooted in assumptions about the moral significance of consciousness, and the value of life for patients who are conscious and not terminally ill. This paper evaluates these assumptions in light of evidence that generates concerns about quality of life in the MCS. It is argued that (...)
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    The right to die: a neurosurgeon speaks of death with candor.Milton D. Heifetz - 1975 - New York: Putnam. Edited by Charles Mangel.
  20. The right to die as the triumph of autonomy.Tom Beauchamp - 2006 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (6):643 – 654.
  21. Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Right to Die, and Misconceptions About Life.Mario Tito Ferreira Moreno & Pedro Fior Mota De Andrade - 2022 - Human Affairs 32 (1):14-27.
    In this paper, we analyze the legal situation regarding physician-assisted suicide in the world. Our hypothesis is that the prohibitive stance on physician-assisted suicide in most societies in the world today seems to be related to our moral attitudes toward suicide. This brings us to a discussion about life itself. We claim that the total lack of legal protection for physician-assisted suicide from international organizations and most countries in the world lies in a philosophical assumption that supports much of our (...)
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  22. Right to die or duty to live? The problem of euthanasia.William Gray - 1999 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 16 (1):19–32.
    Argument about euthanasia in Australia intensified following the world's first legal euthanasia death of Bob Dent under the Northern Territory's short-lived Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995. This paper takes stock of the implacably opposed positions on euthanasia following Bob Dent's death, which provides a focus for the controversy, and identifies the key doctrines which separate adversaries in the euthanasia debate and their associated incommensurable intuitions.
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    “I Support the Right to Die. You Go First”: Bias and Physician-Assisted Suicide.Felicia Nimue Ackerman - 2018 - In David Boonin, Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 703-715.
    Consider these three positions about physician-assisted suicide:Physician-assisted suicide should be illegal for everyone.Physician-assisted suicide should be legal for only the terminally ill.Physician-assisted suicide should be legal for all competent adults.So far, the debate in America has been primarily between positions 1 and 2. I think it should be between positions 1 and 3. Both those positions embody reasonable viewpoints, and I will not try to decide between them in this chapter. But I will argue that the double standard embodied in (...)
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    The Right to Die on the Slippery Slope.John D. Arras - 1982 - Social Theory and Practice 8 (3):285-328.
  25. Freedom and the Right to Die.Peter Singer - 2002 - Free Inquiry 22.
    The isolation of the Netherlands as the only country in which voluntary euthanasia is legal is about to end. In October 2001 the Belgian Senate voted by almost a 2:1 margin to allow doctors to act on a patient's request for assistance in dying. The legislation is expected to pass the lower house shortly. That the Netherlands' closest neighbor is likely to be the next country to take this step should provide food for thought among those who have denounced voluntary (...)
     
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    The Right to Die with Dignity. [REVIEW]Milica Czerny - 2003 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 3 (2):211-214.
  27. Is There a Right to Die?Suzanne Uniacke - 2004 - In Lavor Brendan & Cave Peter, Thinking About Death. British Humanist Association. pp. 22-25.
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  28. Right to life, right to die and assisted suicide.S. B. Chetwynd - 2004 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 21 (2):173–182.
    abstract In 2002 Diane Pretty went to the European Court of Human Rights to gain a ruling about assisted suicide. In the course of this she argued that the right to life implied a right to die. This paper will consider, from an ethical rather than a legal point of view, how the right to life might imply (or not) a right to die, and whether this includes either a right that others shall help us (...)
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  29. Raphael Cohen-Almagor, The Right to Die with Dignity: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine, and Law.Milica Czerny - 2003 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 8:211-214.
     
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  30. Freedom and the right to die free inquiry , vol. 22, no. 2, may 15, 2002.Peter Singer - manuscript
    The isolation of the Netherlands as the only country in which voluntary euthanasia is legal is about to end. In October 2001 the Belgian Senate voted by almost a 2:1 margin to allow doctors to act on a patient's request for assistance in dying. The legislation is expected to pass the lower house shortly. That the Netherlands' closest neighbor is likely to be the next country to take this step should provide food for thought among those who have denounced voluntary (...)
     
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  31. Rule Utilitarianism and the Right to Die.Michael J. Almeida - 2000 - In J. M. Humber & R. F. Almeder, Is There a Duty to die?. Biomedical Ethics Reviews. Springer. pp. 81 - 97.
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  32. Rule Utilitarianism and the Right to Die.Michael J. Almeida - 2000 - In J. M. Humber & R. F. Almeder, Is There a Duty to die?. Biomedical Ethics Reviews. Springer. pp. 81 - 97.
     
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  33. Doctors Have no Right to Refuse Medical Assistance in Dying, Abortion or Contraception.Julian Savulescu & Udo Schuklenk - 2017 - Bioethics 30 (9):162-170.
    In an article in this journal, Christopher Cowley argues that we have ‘misunderstood the special nature of medicine, and have misunderstood the motivations of the conscientious objectors’. We have not. It is Cowley who has misunderstood the role of personal values in the profession of medicine. We argue that there should be better protections for patients from doctors' personal values and there should be more severe restrictions on the right to conscientious objection, particularly in relation to assisted dying. We (...)
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    Cinematic Realism and Right to Die Legislation.A. A. Howsepian - 1997 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 11 (2):63-66.
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    Right to Life, Right to Die.Kateryna Rassudina - 2020 - Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy 10 (10:4):1405-1416.
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    Should there be a right to die with dignity in certain medical cases in the United Kingdom? Some reflections on the decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court regarding the protection afforded by Article 8 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.Lisa Claydon - 2015 - Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 19 (1):91-106.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik Jahrgang: 19 Heft: 1 Seiten: 91-106.
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    The right to die and the chance to live.J. E. Rhoads - 1980 - Journal of Medical Ethics 6 (2):53-54.
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    A Response to 'The Right to Die?'.L. H. Toiviainen - 2000 - Nursing Ethics 7 (No 2):451-454.
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    To live is to die: A virtue account of arguments for the right to die.Franlu Vulliermet - 2020 - Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 10 (1-2):20-29.
    In recent years, debates about euthanasia and assisted suicide have increased to the point that now, many people defend the recognition of the right to die, the right for people to decide upon the end of their life. Consistently, advocates fight to legalise practices such as euthanasia to guarantee patients’ possibility to die when they request it. In this paper, I review two of the strongest arguments invoked by proponents of physician-assisted suicide: the argument for compassion and the (...)
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    The Right to Die -- Understanding Euthanasia.Wendy Fisher Gordon - 1987 - Journal of Medical Ethics 13 (3):161-162.
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  41. “Is the Right to Die Dead?”.Vincent Samar - 2000 - DePaul Law Review 50 (1):221-64.
    In this essay, I maintain that the issue of whether the right to die is viable as a constitutionally protectable right remains open. I intend to reconcile the Supreme Court's holdings in Glucksberg and Quill by examining the different rationales the Justices offered for their decisions. I do not believe this issue can be resolved simply by asserting that the intention of the actor is different when assisting suicide, as compared to when life-sustaining treatment is withdrawn. Rather, the (...)
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  42. Depression in the context of disability and the “right to die”.Carol J. Gill - 2004 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 25 (3):171-198.
    Arguments in favor of legalized assisted suicide often center on issues of personal privacy and freedom of choice over one's body. Many disability advocates assert, however, that autonomy arguments neglect the complex sociopolitical determinants of despair for people with disabilities. Specifically, they argue that social approval of suicide for individuals with irreversible conditions is discriminatory and that relaxing restrictions on assisted suicide would jeopardize, not advance, the freedom of persons with disabilities to direct the lives they choose. This paper examines (...)
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    No (true) right to die: barriers in access to physician-assisted death in case of psychiatric disease, advanced dementia or multiple geriatric syndromes in the Netherlands.Caroline van den Ende & Eva Constance Alida Asscher - 2024 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 27 (2):181-188.
    Even in the Netherlands, where the practice of physician-assisted death (PAD) has been legalized for over 20 years, there is no such thing as a ‘right to die’. Especially patients with extraordinary requests, such as a wish for PAD based on psychiatric suffering, advanced dementia, or (a limited number of) multiple geriatric syndromes, encounter barriers in access to PAD. In this paper, we discuss whether these barriers can be justified in the context of the Dutch situation where PAD is (...)
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  44. US Hospice Structure and its Implications for the “Right to Die” Debate: An Interdisciplinary Study of the “Feeling of Being a Burden to Others”.Harold Braswell - 2019 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 16 (4):525-534.
    This article is an analysis of the relationship between US hospice structure and the feeling of being a burden to others. A goal of US hospice care is to reduce the FBO. But in America, hospice is limited in its ability to do so because of the high caregiver burden it places on family members of dying people. Through a historical study, I show that this burden was excessive when the hospice system was created and has worsened over time. Through (...)
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  45. No Last Resort: Pitting the Right to Die Against the Right to Medical Self-Determination.Michael Cholbi - 2015 - The Journal of Ethics 19 (2):143-157.
    Many participants in debates about the morality of assisted dying maintain that individuals may only turn to assisted dying as a ‘last resort’, i.e., that a patient ought to be eligible for assisted dying only after she has exhausted certain treatment or care options. Here I argue that this last resort condition is unjustified, that it is in fact wrong to require patients to exhaust a prescribed slate of treatment or care options before being eligible for assisted dying. The last (...)
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    Courts, Gender and "The Right to Die".Steven H. Miles & Allison August - 1990 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 18 (1-2):85-95.
  47. Is There a Right to Die?Leon R. Kass - 1993 - Hastings Center Report 23 (1):34-43.
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  48. Humanness, Personhood, and the Right to Die.J. P. Moreland - 1995 - Faith and Philosophy 12 (1):95-112.
    A widely adopted approach to end-of-life ethical questions fails to make explicit certain crucial metaphysical ideas entailed by it and when those ideas are clarified, then it can be shown to be inadequate. These metaphysical themes cluster around the notions of personal identity, personhood and humanness, and the metaphysics of substance. In order to clarify and critique the approach just mentioned, I focus on the writings of Robert N. Wennberg as a paradigm case by, first, stating his views of personal (...)
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    New regulation of the right to a dignified dying in Spain: Repercussions for nursing.Cayetano Fernández-Sola, José Granero-Molina, Gabriel Aguilera Manrique, Adelaida María Castro-Sánchez, José Manuel Hernández-Padilla & Josefa Márquez-Membrive - 2012 - Nursing Ethics 19 (5):619-628.
    Preserving dignity during the dying process requires reviewing the roles of those involved in the treatment, care methods and decision-making. This article examines the participation and responsibility assigned to nurses regarding decision-making in the final stages of life, as laid out in the Rights to and Guarantee of Dignity for the Individual During the Process of Death Act. This text has been analysed on the levels of socio-cultural practice and discourse practice, using the critical discourse analysis methodology. The results show (...)
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    Natural Right to Grow and Die in the Form of Wholeness: A Philosophical Interpretation of the Ontological Status of Brain-dead Children.Naoshi Yamawaki - 2010 - Diogenes 57 (3):103-116.
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