Ethical and legal issues concerning physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are very
much on the public agenda in many jurisdictions. In this timely book LW Sumner addresses …

Background Italy enacted targeted legislation governing informed consent and advanced
healthcare directives in 2017. No provisions of this law legalize euthanasia and/or assisted …

Terminal sedation (TS) is a recently coined term that may apply to a variety of practices with
differing ethical implications. Two hypothetical cases are presented and contrasted. The first …

Although physician‐assisted death can be a great benefit both to those who are terminally ill
and those who are not, the risks for patients in these two categories are quite different. For …

Through a number of studies recently published in the psychology literature, TD Wilson, DT
Gilbert, and others have demonstrated that our judgments about what our future mental …

The next best alternatives offered by the literature (sedation for intractable distress in the
dying23 or sedation in the imminently dying, 24) are more precise, but neither is likely to …

abstract Debate about physician‐assisted suicide has typically focused on the values of
autonomy and patient wellbeing. This is understandable, even reasonable, given the import …

Paradoxalement, la même notion d'autonomie se retrouve dans un argument pour et un
argument contre le droit moral au suicide assisté et à l'euthanasie. Un des arguments …

Several important issues must be considered in any discussion of the permissibility of
assisted death, 1 including the obligation to relieve suffering, the need to protect vulnerable …

In this project, I expose conceptual and moral difficulties with the concept of rational suicide.
After offering a comprehensive list of criteria used to define rationality in the bioethics …