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Other people's lives: reflections on medicine, ethics, and euthanasia

Fenigsen, Richard

Issues in law & medicine, 2012-03, Vol.27 (3), p.231 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Terre Haute: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc

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  • Título:
    Other people's lives: reflections on medicine, ethics, and euthanasia
  • Autor: Fenigsen, Richard
  • Assuntos: Assisted suicide ; Euthanasia ; Evaluation ; Hospitals ; Laws, regulations and rules ; Medical ethics ; Medicine ; Murders & murder attempts ; Nursing homes ; Right to die
  • É parte de: Issues in law & medicine, 2012-03, Vol.27 (3), p.231
  • Descrição: Mr. H's death, five weeks after admission to the hospital, was apparently not due to his injury or any disease but to starving and neglect.468 "I have witnessed doctors who want to keep the bed clear by withdrawing treatment or actively assisted in deaths," Dr.\n As a matter of fact, nobody can be put in jail by virtue of Controlled Substances Act because the only sanction it provides is suspension of the right to prescribe controlled substances;533 spying on doctors is superfluous because those prescribing drugs to commit suicide are supposed to report their actions to Oregon's Health Division;534 and treating pain is not involved in the issue at all, since the method of suicide (modeled on the Dutch prescription) consists in ingesting an overdose of sleep-inducing barbiturate,535 not painkillers. [...]the enactment of assisted suicide law in Oregon has been an event of extremely grave importance. [...]it can lead to further changes in American jurisprudence. If a category of persons is entitled to assistance in committing suicide, the courts may - or will have to - adjudge the same right to paralyzed patients unable to take the poison, and to unconscious persons and minors represented by guardians. [...]by virtue of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees equal protection of the law to all citizens, the law permitting physician-assisted suicide may lead to legalization of voluntary and involuntary active euthanasia; there is little doubt that these are the further prospects.
  • Editor: Terre Haute: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc
  • Idioma: Inglês
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