Dignity in dying should include the legalization of non-voluntary euthanasia

Clinical Ethics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 65-67

  Doyal, Len ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84992897589     PISSN: 14777509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/147775006777254579     Document Type: Editorial

References (10)

1. House of Lords Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill 2005.
2. For a summary of many different polls, see Dignity in Dying Report, London, 2006: 13-6
3. These arguments are developed further in Doyal L. The futility of opposing the legalisation of non-voluntary and voluntary euthanasia. In: McLean SAM (ed), First Do No Harm. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006 (forthcoming)
4. British Medical Association, Medical Ethics Today (2nd Ed). London: British Medical Journal Press, 2004: 353-4 and 392
5. Rachaels J. Active and passive euthanasia. N Engl J Med 1975; 292: 78-80. Also Kuhse H. Why killing is not always worse - and sometimes better - than letting die. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1998; 7: 371-4
6. Laurie GT, Mason JK. Negative treatment of vulnerable patients: euthanasia by any other name. The Juridical Review 2000; Part 3: 159-78
7. Doyal L, Doyal L. Why active and physician-assisted suicide should be legalized. BMJ 2001; 323: 1079-80
8. Of many examples, see: Griffiths J, Bood A, Weyers H. Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998: 197-257; Kuhse H, Singer P, Baume P, Clark M, Rickard M. End-of-life decisions in Australian medical practice. Med J Austr 1997; 166: 191; Deliens L, Mortier F, Bilsen J, et al. End-of-life decisions in medical practice in Flanders, Belgium: a nationwide survey. Lancet 2000; 356: 1806; Smith S. Evidence for the practical slippery slope in the debate on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Med Law Rev 2005; 13: 17-44; Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD, van der Heide A, Koper D et al. Euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions in the Netherlands in 1990, 1990, 1995 and 2001. Lancet 2003; 362: 395-9
9. For example, in 2003 there were four paediatric palliative care consultants in the UK. See Hutchinson F, King N, Hain RDW. Terminal care in paediatrics: where are we now? Postgrad Med J 2003; 79: 566-8 More generally, see House of Lords Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill (Vol.1) 2005: 33-6. Shortages elsewhere have been widely reported.
10. Jackson E. Medical Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005: 1002-3