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Cholbi, Michael; Varelius, Jukka

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“…The primary function of euthanasia in the Netherlands is to prevent unnecessary suffering, when the individual experiencing the suffering no longer wishes to continue and there is no prospect of the suffering ending by any other way than death (Overheid 2001 ; Rietjens et al, 2009 ; Beauchamp 2006 ; Schramme 2015 ). It can be convincingly argued that this is also the case in euthanasia for a completed life; the individual is experiencing an existential suffering and this has made the quality of life not worth living (Raus and Sterckx 2015 ; Pans 2006 ; Cholbi and Varelius 2015 ). At their essence, these two forms of euthanasia have the same ethical underpinning; an individual is suffering to the extent that their quality of life is critically diminished and they no longer view their life as one worth living.…”

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The Final Act: An Ethical Analysis of Pia Dijkstra’s Euthanasia for a Completed Life

Holzman

2021

Bioethical Inquiry

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Amongst other countries, the Netherlands currently allows euthanasia, provided the physician performing the procedure adheres to a strict set of requirements. In 2016, Second Chamber member Pia Dijkstra submitted a law proposal which would also allow euthanasia without the reason necessarily having any medical foundation; euthanasia on the basis of a completed life. The debate on this topic has been ongoing for over two decades, but this law proposal has made the discussion much more immediate and concrete. This paper considers the moral permissibility of Pia Dijkstra’s law proposal, focusing on the ethics of the implementation Dijkstra describes in her proposal. I argue that, at present, Dijkstra’s law proposal is unsuitable for implementation, due to a number of as of yet unaddressed problems, including the possible development of an ageist stigma and undue pressure on the profession of end-of-life coordinator. Perhaps adequate responses can be conceived to address these issues. However, the existence of a radically different, yet currently equally unacceptable position regarding the implementation of euthanasia for a completed life as proposed by fellow party member Paul Schnabel suggests it may be difficult to formulate an ethically acceptable implementation for this, in principle, ethically acceptable concept.

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The Final Act: An Ethical Analysis of Pia Dijkstra’s Euthanasia for a Completed Life

Holzman

2021

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“…Finally, the suggestion that our analysis was affected by bias is misleading, as one of us has published articles supportive of organ donation after assisted dying. 5,6…”

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Author's Reponse to Kompanje Letter to the Editor

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Shaw

2018

J Intensive Care Med

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We thank Kompanje and Epker for their interesting comments regarding our article entitled "Controlled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death: Ethical Issues in Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy," recently published in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 1 As the authors appeared to have misunderstood several elements of our arguments, let us clarify and re-explain some of them. For the first criticism, the authors forgot (we hope not deliberately) to include the first part of our quote 1 : During W-LST [withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy], when the patient is comfortable, sedatives and analgesics should not be increased, as it is unnecessary and has the goal of hastening death (p. 182).

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The Final Act: An Ethical Analysis of Pia Dijkstra’s Euthanasia for a Completed Life

The Final Act: An Ethical Analysis of Pia Dijkstra’s Euthanasia for a Completed Life

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