Euthanasia
Euthanasia | Safegurads Cannot Prevent Abuse of Legalized Euthanasia
Herbert Hendin argues in the following viewpoint that, in practice, it is impossible to regulate legalized euthanasia so that it is limited to terminally ill, mentally competent patients who request it. Hendin contends that legalized euthanasia in the Netherlands has encouraged doctors there to accept euthanasia as a routine practice, and that in many instances doctors have ended the lives of patients without their request. He believes the Dutch experience clearly illustrates that even extensive legal safeguards cannot prevent euthanasia from being abused once it is initially permitted....
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- Introduction
- Table of Contents
- Should Voluntary Euthanasia Be Legalized?
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Would Legalizing Euthanasia Lead to Involuntary Killing?
- Chapter 3 Preface
- Legalizing Euthanasia Would Lead to Involuntary Killing
- Legalizing Voluntary Euthanasia Would Threaten the Disabled
- Legalizing Voluntary Euthanasia Would not Threaten the Disabled
- Safegurads Cannot Prevent Abuse of Legalized Euthanasia
- Safeguards Can Prevent Abuse of Legalized Euthanasia
- Periodical Bibliography
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Should Physicians Assist in Suicide?
- Chapter 4 Preface
- Assisted Suicide is an Ethically Acceptable Practice for Physicians
- Assisted Suicide is not an Ethically Acceptable Practice for Physicians
- Physicians Should be Legally Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Physicians Should not be Legally Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Periodical Bibliography
- For Further Discussion
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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