Euthanasia and assisted suicide: good or bad public policy?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v11i3.4547Keywords:
ethical issues, non-voluntary euthanasia, non-competent persons, loss of autonomy, Personal dignity, assisted suicideAbstract
A quote from Baroness Butler-Sloss, a former president of the Family Division of the High Court in the United Kingdom, provides a useful description of what is involved in the debate about whether or not to legalise euthanasia and/or assisted suicide. It is a debate about the merits of staying with a long-established boundary which provides a bright line and that is ‘natural’, versus the merits of exchanging that boundary for one that is ‘arbitrary … easily crossed and hard to defend’.
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