Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia
claim was that he had faced a conflict of duties pitting his legal duty not to kill against his duty as a physician to relieve his patient’s unbearable suffering. He was acquitted on the important grounds of conflict of duty. These grounds are based on a concept in Dutch law called "force majeu...
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Springer Netherlands
1998, 1998
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Prologue
- The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia
- The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia
- Toward a Dutch Compromise: Perspectives from Government, Law, Medicine, and Academia
- Twenty-Five Years of Dutch Experience and Policy on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: An Overview
- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and the USA: Comparing Practices, Justifications and Key Concepts in Bioethics and Law
- Physician Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: An Analysis of Case Law and Professional Opinions
- The Slippery Slope: Are The Dutch Sliding Down or Are They Clambering Up?
- Teaching Euthanasia: The Integration of the Practice of Euthanasia into Grief, Death and Dying Curricula of Post-Graduate Family Medicine Training
- Comparing Two Euthanasia Protocols: The Free University of Amsterdam Academic Hospital and the Medical Center of Alkmaar
- Euthanasia Drugs in the Netherlands
- Euthanasia in the Nursing Home: “We Had a Problem Not to Let the Other Patients Know What Was Happening”
- “Just What Are We Doing?”
- “I was the First Physician in the Netherlands Prosecuted for Performing Euthanasia on a Patient Who was not a Relative.”
- Arlene Judith Klotzko and Dr. Boudewijn Chabot Discuss Assisted Suicide in the Absence of Somatic Illness
- What Kind of Life? What Kind of Death? An Interview with Dr. Henk Prins
- “What is There to Be Frightened About? After All, It’s Not Like I Am Going to the Dentist!”
- The Story of Laurens
- “I Walked Out Into The Kitchen; I Could Not Endure It”
- “He Was Dead Before He Even Passed Away”
- “We Will Have to Make of Life What We Can”
- A Double Life
- “You Will Do Well With The Children”
- “As Soon As Possible Please”
- “What Life Was Left to Live?”
- “I Don’t Want To Be Put Away Like A Dog”
- “We Are Living in a House of Death; Everyone Who Enters Here Will Die”
- Euthanasia: Promises and Perils
- The Hard Unanswered Questions: Issues That Continue to Divide the Dutch and Fuel Debate
- New Directions
- Empirical Research on Euthanasia and Other Medical End-of-Life Decisions and the Euthanasia Notification Procedure
- Palliative Care: Dutch Hospice and Euthanasia
- Euthanasia and the Power of Medicine
- A Religious Argument in Favor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
- The Range of Objections to Euthanasia
- Catholic Healthcare and the Dutch National Character
- Living with Euthanasia: Physicians and Families Speak for Themselves
- Annie Asked, “Are You Going to Help Me?”
- “In Death He Achieved a Stature that He Never Had in Life”
- “The Moment Will Come When I Will Have to Kill Him”
- “Killing is Always Bad, But Not Always the Worst Alternative”
- “A Tragedy”
- “The Euthanasia Mountain Gets Higher and Higher”
- “I Will Not Leave You Alone”
- “The Worst Moments of My Life”
- “Euthanasia is Not So Much About Shortening Life, But More Directly AboutShortening Suffering”