Sentences with phrase «voluntary euthanasia»

There are now 13 jurisdictions which have, in one way or another, permitted voluntary euthanasia and / or assisted suicide in some circumstances.

But voluntary euthanasia advocates are hoping to change that for future generations.

For example, I published my first paper advocating for the decriminalisation of voluntary euthanasia in 1993, and a book on the same topic in 2004.

Implications of the likely introduction of voluntary euthanasia in Australia will be a focus at the biennial Australian Palliative Care Conference in Adelaide this week.

Meanwhile, an interim report released by the Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy said that medical experts would need more training if voluntary euthanasia legislation was passed in that state.

Unlike legal voluntary euthanasia of disabled people in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Canada, the disabled victims of the Nazis were part of mass killing experiments at the start of the Holocaust.

«Recommending only a limited reform in the law to allow assisted dying but not voluntary euthanasia, and only to encompass terminally ill people rather than also including people who are unable to end their own lives but who are incurably suffering, permanently incapacitated and have made a clear, informed and resolute decision that they wish to do so, is ethically inconsistent.»

From Wikipedia we find out that it is one of the few countries to allow voluntary euthanasia.

Some one at the Open University suggested that the population should be reduced and suggests voluntary euthanasia — perhaps members of the IPCC should lead the way

First, permissive regimes do not slide from voluntary euthanasia to non-voluntary or involuntary euthanasia (either in relation to the criteria for access or in practice).

Right - to - die advocates often point to Holland as the model for how well physician - assisted, voluntary euthanasia for terminally - ill, competent patients can work without abuse.

The Dutch experience suggests otherwise — there voluntary euthanasia has given way to non-voluntary euthanasia, false reporting and under - reporting.

The BHA was called to give evidence to the Commission's inquiry into whether there should be a change in law to legalise assisted dying in the UK and made the case that there are good ethical reasons not to limit legal assisted dying only to terminally ill people but to others who are incurably suffering, and to permit voluntary euthanasia as well as assisted dying to maximise autonomy of patients who wish to end their lives but are unable to do so themselves.

The decriminalisation of voluntary euthanasia and / or assisted suicide can be used to benefit access to and quality of palliative care — this has been seen, for example, in Oregon.

But if human life is not supremely valuable after all, then there is no longer any reason to think that suicide or voluntary euthanasia is necessarily wrong under any or all circumstances.

Her platform includes legalising all drugs, taxing the church and voluntary euthanasia.

«If anything, we would have liked to have seen the Commission go further and recommend a greater change in the law to allow both assisted dying and voluntary euthanasia.

The latter condition would rule out voluntary euthanasia, where another person such as a doctor could administer medication to cause death when the patient had clearly and autonomously requested it, even when the patient is unable to end her or his own life.

Laws to permit voluntary euthanasia have been introduced to several Australian parliaments at different times.

Around 80 % of Australians believe that they should have the right to end their lives if and when life becomes an intolerable burden — the right to voluntary euthanasia.

(I have considered the ethics of the voluntary euthanasia question, and its link to religion, elsewhere.)

Physician - assisted dying is a term which covers both physician - assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.

Prophesied undesirable social consequences are not sufficient to negate the right to choose assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.

In a report released this week, a Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel proposes that assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia should be decriminalized for competent individuals who make a free and informed decision that their life is no longer worth living.

The criteria for access to voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide in Justice Smith's decision in Carter and in Quebec's An Act Respecting End - of - Life Care do not include «terminal illness».

There are, of course, a number of pathways to permissive legal regimes with respect to voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Before turning to lessons learned, it is worth briefly reviewing the voluntary euthanasia and / or assisted suicide law reform initiatives that are currently active in the five countries under consideration.

The Quebec legislation permits voluntary euthanasia (termed «medical aid in dying»).

Many jurisdictions, including Canada, have been actively exploring the issue of whether to move to more permissive regimes with respect to voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Here it can be concluded that there is a significant amount of law reform activity aimed at moving toward more permissive regimes with respect to voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide taking place right now in Canada and in other common law jurisdictions.

That there is a moral right, grounded in autonomy, for competent and informed individuals who have decided after careful consideration of the relevant facts, that their continuing life is not worth living, to non-interference with requests for assistance with suicide or voluntary euthanasia.

There are no third - party interests, self - regarding duties, or duties toward objective goods that warrant denying people the right to assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.

That none of the grounds for denying individuals the enjoyment of their moral rights applies in the case of assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.

The Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Carter applies to both voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the applications to the ECtHR in Nicklinson and Lamb v UK, cases concerning assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, are inadmissible.

Bill C - 14 goes further than Quebec, and allows for assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, whereas the province only provides for the latter.