2018
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3229909
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On Avoiding Deep Dementia

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“…A legal alternative to preemptive suicide is to create an advance directive stating the circumstances under which one wants not to receive any lifesaving or life‐sustaining treatment, even the most basic and noninvasive . This option is our focus in this paper: how to create effective advance directives to avoid living into severe dementia.…”
Section: Essaymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A legal alternative to preemptive suicide is to create an advance directive stating the circumstances under which one wants not to receive any lifesaving or life‐sustaining treatment, even the most basic and noninvasive . This option is our focus in this paper: how to create effective advance directives to avoid living into severe dementia.…”
Section: Essaymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…If he reaches that point, Cantor's advance directive refuses “any and all life‐sustaining means.” Yet people with impairments like this are still capable of having relationships and engaging in activities that make life meaningful and enjoyable . One alternative to living with early‐stage dementia is to bring about one's death, but Cantor acknowledges that preemptive death carries “the hazard of cutting short an existence that is still enjoyable (and might continue to be so for some unknown period).”…”
Section: Other Voicementioning
confidence: 99%
“…A final shortcoming of directives like Cantor's is their failure to respect people living with the disability of dementia. Cantor declares that his advance treatment refusals are based on a “personal vision of intolerable indignity and degradation associated with cognitive dysfunction.” But empirical research shows that people living with intellectual disabilities experience a better quality of life than nondisabled people think they do …”
Section: Other Voicementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Most of your essay concerns finding legal justifications for various methods of ending your life should you become afflicted by Alzheimer disease. Rather than discuss your legal reasoning, I want to address this issue of “self‐deliverance” (your preferred term for suicide under these circumstances) head on.…”
Section: Other Voicementioning
confidence: 99%