A suicide right for the mentally ill? A Swiss case opens a new debate

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 21-23

  Appel, Jacob M ^a  

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EID: 34250672025     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2007.0035     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. Oregon Revised Statutes 127.800-995; California Assembly Bill 374 (2007).
2. Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Review Procedures Act (2002), 26 691, no. 137 of the 2000-2001 parliamentary session that went into effect April 1, 2002, available at http://www.nwe.nl/nwe2/pagina.asp?pagkeys= 72087; Act of Belgain Parliament on Euthanasia (May 28, 2002), parliament document no. 50K1488, available at http://www.lachambre.be/kvvcr/showpage.cfm? section=flwb&language=fr&rightmenu=right&cfm=flwbn.cfm?lang=F &legislat=50&dossierID=1488.
3. S.A. Hurst and A. Mauron, "Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in Switzerland: Allowing a Role for Non-Physicians," British Medical Journal 326 (2003): 271-73.
4. Ruling 03.11.2006 2A.48/2006 of the Federal High Court of Switzerland.
5. "Ärztliche Suizidhilfe auch für psychisch Kranke," Basler Zeiting, February 2, 2007.
6. "Mentally 111 Now Included in Swiss Assisted Suicide Laws," February 1, 2007, available at http://euthanasie.org/nvve2/pagina.asp? pagkey=74297&metkey=375.
7. Ruling 03.11.2006 2A.48/2006 of the Federal High Court of Switzerland.
8. Ibid.
9. See B. Russell and M. Firth, "Swiss Clinic Wants to Offer Assisted Suicide to the Mentally 111," The Independent, September 21, 2006.
10. For a discussion of the increased emphasis that psychiatry places on suicide prevention, see S. Burgess and K. Hawton, "Suicide, Euthanasia and the Psychiatrist," Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 5, no. 2 (1998): 113-26.
11. U.S. Arsever, "Les Patients Psychiques Ont Droit a l'Aide au Suicide. Par un Medecin," Le Temps, February 3, 2007.
12. "Doctor Unpunished For Dutch Suicide," New York Times, June 22, 1994.
13. Ibid.