Book contents
- Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy
- Cambridge Bioethics and Law
- Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I Definitions
- Part II The Ethical Debate
- Part III The Dutch Experience
- 7 The Guidelines
- 8 The First Survey
- 9 Breach of the Guidelines
- 10 The Slide toward NVAE
- 11 The Second Survey
- 12 The Dutch in Denial?
- 13 The Euthanasia Act and the Code of Practice
- 14 Effective Control since 2002?
- 15 Continuing Concerns
- 16 A Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide by Stopping Eating and Drinking?
- 17 Assisted Suicide for the Elderly with ‘Completed Lives’
- Part IV Belgium
- Part V Australia
- Part VI The United States
- Part VII Canada
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Books in the Series
13 - The Euthanasia Act and the Code of Practice
from Part III - The Dutch Experience
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2018
Book contents
- Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy
- Cambridge Bioethics and Law
- Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I Definitions
- Part II The Ethical Debate
- Part III The Dutch Experience
- 7 The Guidelines
- 8 The First Survey
- 9 Breach of the Guidelines
- 10 The Slide toward NVAE
- 11 The Second Survey
- 12 The Dutch in Denial?
- 13 The Euthanasia Act and the Code of Practice
- 14 Effective Control since 2002?
- 15 Continuing Concerns
- 16 A Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide by Stopping Eating and Drinking?
- 17 Assisted Suicide for the Elderly with ‘Completed Lives’
- Part IV Belgium
- Part V Australia
- Part VI The United States
- Part VII Canada
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Books in the Series
Summary
This chapter begins by pointing to the incidence of lay assistance in suicide in the Netherlands but the bulk of the chapter outlines guidance published by the Dutch Medical Assocation and Dutch Nurses Association to their members in 2014 on how to assist people who wish (often because they have been refused euthanasia) intentionally to end their own lives by stopping eating and drinking. The chapter argues that the guidance's view that this is not suicide is mistaken, and that it appears that everyone in the Netherlands now has a right to physician assistance in suicide, at least by this method.
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- Euthanasia, Ethics and Public PolicyAn Argument against Legalisation, pp. 157 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018