Active voluntary euthanasia, terminal sedation, and assisted suicide

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-50

  Gauthier, Candace Cummins ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; BEHAVIOR; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POLICY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

ADULT; AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; AMERICAN NURSES' ASSOCIATION; DOUBLE EFFECT; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTENTION; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PUBLIC POLICY; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035288343     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. See, for example, R.D. Truog et al., "Barbiturates in the Care of the Terminally Ill," New England Journal of Medicine 327, no. 23 (1992): 1678-81; J.A. Billings and S.D. Block, "Slow Euthanasia," Journal of Palliative Care 12, no. 4 (1996): 21-30; T.E. Quill, B. Lo, and D.W. Brock, "Palliative Care Options of Last Resort," Journal of the American Medical Association 278, no. 23 (1997): 2099-104. F. Kamm compares "morphine pain relief" with physician-assisted suicide in "Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doctrine of Double Effect, and the Ground of Value," Ethics 109, no. 3 (1999): 586-605. See also D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide," New England Journal of Medicine 337, no. 17 (1997): 1236-9; D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: Rejecting Assisted Suicide, Embracing Euthanasia," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1997): 947-68; and D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation," in Physician Assisted Suicide, ed. M.P. Battin, R. Rhodes, and A. Silvers (New York: Routledge, 1998), 301-11. Orentlicher includes the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in his analysis of terminal sedation. I have chosen not to discuss this aspect in order to focus my analysis narrowly on the act of administering a potentially lethal medication.
2. See, for example, R.D. Truog et al., "Barbiturates in the Care of the Terminally Ill," New England Journal of Medicine 327, no. 23 (1992): 1678-81; J.A. Billings and S.D. Block, "Slow Euthanasia," Journal of Palliative Care 12, no. 4 (1996): 21-30; T.E. Quill, B. Lo, and D.W. Brock, "Palliative Care Options of Last Resort," Journal of the American Medical Association 278, no. 23 (1997): 2099-104. F. Kamm compares "morphine pain relief" with physician-assisted suicide in "Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doctrine of Double Effect, and the Ground of Value," Ethics 109, no. 3 (1999): 586-605. See also D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide," New England Journal of Medicine 337, no. 17 (1997): 1236-9; D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: Rejecting Assisted Suicide, Embracing Euthanasia," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1997): 947-68; and D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation," in Physician Assisted Suicide, ed. M.P. Battin, R. Rhodes, and A. Silvers (New York: Routledge, 1998), 301-11. Orentlicher includes the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in his analysis of terminal sedation. I have chosen not to discuss this aspect in order to focus my analysis narrowly on the act of administering a potentially lethal medication.
3. See, for example, R.D. Truog et al., "Barbiturates in the Care of the Terminally Ill," New England Journal of Medicine 327, no. 23 (1992): 1678-81; J.A. Billings and S.D. Block, "Slow Euthanasia," Journal of Palliative Care 12, no. 4 (1996): 21-30; T.E. Quill, B. Lo, and D.W. Brock, "Palliative Care Options of Last Resort," Journal of the American Medical Association 278, no. 23 (1997): 2099-104. F. Kamm compares "morphine pain relief" with physician-assisted suicide in "Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doctrine of Double Effect, and the Ground of Value," Ethics 109, no. 3 (1999): 586-605. See also D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide," New England Journal of Medicine 337, no. 17 (1997): 1236-9; D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: Rejecting Assisted Suicide, Embracing Euthanasia," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1997): 947-68; and D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation," in Physician Assisted Suicide, ed. M.P. Battin, R. Rhodes, and A. Silvers (New York: Routledge, 1998), 301-11. Orentlicher includes the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in his analysis of terminal sedation. I have chosen not to discuss this aspect in order to focus my analysis narrowly on the act of administering a potentially lethal medication.
4. See, for example, R.D. Truog et al., "Barbiturates in the Care of the Terminally Ill," New England Journal of Medicine 327, no. 23 (1992): 1678-81; J.A. Billings and S.D. Block, "Slow Euthanasia," Journal of Palliative Care 12, no. 4 (1996): 21-30; T.E. Quill, B. Lo, and D.W. Brock, "Palliative Care Options of Last Resort," Journal of the American Medical Association 278, no. 23 (1997): 2099-104. F. Kamm compares "morphine pain relief" with physician-assisted suicide in "Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doctrine of Double Effect, and the Ground of Value," Ethics 109, no. 3 (1999): 586-605. See also D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide," New England Journal of Medicine 337, no. 17 (1997): 1236-9; D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: Rejecting Assisted Suicide, Embracing Euthanasia," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1997): 947-68; and D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation," in Physician Assisted Suicide, ed. M.P. Battin, R. Rhodes, and A. Silvers (New York: Routledge, 1998), 301-11. Orentlicher includes the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in his analysis of terminal sedation. I have chosen not to discuss this aspect in order to focus my analysis narrowly on the act of administering a potentially lethal medication.
5. See, for example, R.D. Truog et al., "Barbiturates in the Care of the Terminally Ill," New England Journal of Medicine 327, no. 23 (1992): 1678-81; J.A. Billings and S.D. Block, "Slow Euthanasia," Journal of Palliative Care 12, no. 4 (1996): 21-30; T.E. Quill, B. Lo, and D.W. Brock, "Palliative Care Options of Last Resort," Journal of the American Medical Association 278, no. 23 (1997): 2099-104. F. Kamm compares "morphine pain relief" with physician-assisted suicide in "Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doctrine of Double Effect, and the Ground of Value," Ethics 109, no. 3 (1999): 586-605. See also D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide," New England Journal of Medicine 337, no. 17 (1997): 1236-9; D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: Rejecting Assisted Suicide, Embracing Euthanasia," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1997): 947-68; and D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation," in Physician Assisted Suicide, ed. M.P. Battin, R. Rhodes, and A. Silvers (New York: Routledge, 1998), 301-11. Orentlicher includes the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in his analysis of terminal sedation. I have chosen not to discuss this aspect in order to focus my analysis narrowly on the act of administering a potentially lethal medication.
6. See, for example, R.D. Truog et al., "Barbiturates in the Care of the Terminally Ill," New England Journal of Medicine 327, no. 23 (1992): 1678-81; J.A. Billings and S.D. Block, "Slow Euthanasia," Journal of Palliative Care 12, no. 4 (1996): 21-30; T.E. Quill, B. Lo, and D.W. Brock, "Palliative Care Options of Last Resort," Journal of the American Medical Association 278, no. 23 (1997): 2099-104. F. Kamm compares "morphine pain relief" with physician-assisted suicide in "Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doctrine of Double Effect, and the Ground of Value," Ethics 109, no. 3 (1999): 586-605. See also D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide," New England Journal of Medicine 337, no. 17 (1997): 1236-9; D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: Rejecting Assisted Suicide, Embracing Euthanasia," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1997): 947-68; and D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation," in Physician Assisted Suicide, ed. M.P. Battin, R. Rhodes, and A. Silvers (New York: Routledge, 1998), 301-11. Orentlicher includes the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in his analysis of terminal sedation. I have chosen not to discuss this aspect in order to focus my analysis narrowly on the act of administering a potentially lethal medication.
7. See, for example, R.D. Truog et al., "Barbiturates in the Care of the Terminally Ill," New England Journal of Medicine 327, no. 23 (1992): 1678-81; J.A. Billings and S.D. Block, "Slow Euthanasia," Journal of Palliative Care 12, no. 4 (1996): 21-30; T.E. Quill, B. Lo, and D.W. Brock, "Palliative Care Options of Last Resort," Journal of the American Medical Association 278, no. 23 (1997): 2099-104. F. Kamm compares "morphine pain relief" with physician-assisted suicide in "Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doctrine of Double Effect, and the Ground of Value," Ethics 109, no. 3 (1999): 586-605. See also D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide," New England Journal of Medicine 337, no. 17 (1997): 1236-9; D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: Rejecting Assisted Suicide, Embracing Euthanasia," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1997): 947-68; and D. Orentlicher, "The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation," in Physician Assisted Suicide, ed. M.P. Battin, R. Rhodes, and A. Silvers (New York: Routledge, 1998), 301-11. Orentlicher includes the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in his analysis of terminal sedation. I have chosen not to discuss this aspect in order to focus my analysis narrowly on the act of administering a potentially lethal medication.