Death with kantian dignity

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-221

  Nelson, Hilde Lindemann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; CASE REPORT; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMANISM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL STRESS; MORALITY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; PHILOSOPHY; RIGHT TO DIE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; FEMALE; HUMANISM; HUMANS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NARRATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RIGHT TO DIE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 0030228102     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. For this argument, see J. Rachels, "Active and Passive Euthanasia," New England Journal of Medicine 292 (9 January 1975): 78-80.
2. Coercion and deception are for Kant the two forms of injustice. See O. O'Neill, Faces of Hunger (New York: Unwin Hyman, 1986), 139, 146.
3. This narrative is heavily adapted from T. Quill, Death and Dignity: Making Choices and Taking Charge (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 84-88.
4. Although Quill achieved a certain notoriety in 1991 when he revealed in the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine that he had helped "Diane," a patient in the end stages of leukemia, to commit suicide, he did not help "Wendy."
5. Quill, Death and Dignity, 51, 105.
6. M.P. Battin, The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 280-82.
7. See Onora O'Neill's discussion of contemporary conceptions of autonomy as compared to Kant's, in "Action, Anthropology and Autonomy," in Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 75-77.