Revising the Criterion for Rational Elective Death  

Oleh:

Prado, C. G.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Coping with Choices to Die, page 70-92.
Topik: Criterion; Elective Death
Fulltext: Revising the Criterion for Rational Elective Death.pdf (237.71KB)

Isi artikel

The criteria I developed to establish that elective death – suicide, assisted suicide , and requested euthanasia – can be rational have gone through a number of revisions. The i rst revision was a result of my realization that the criteria were too detailed and extensive to be of practical use. I learned this from objections raised at conferences, from constructive criticism by colleagues and reviewers, but especially from what I can only describe as impatient dismissal of the criteria by the medical practitioners with whom I discussed them. It became clear that the criteria had to be considerably more practical and brief. What also emerged was that since I i rst formulated the criteria for the i rst edition of The Last Choice : Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age , a new element entered into the elective-death issue. This element was not new in the sense of being wholly novel, but in the sense of becoming signii cant after previously being of minor consequence. The element was the role of multiculturalism in elective-death decisions and their assessment.

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