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
11 - The Second Survey
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
The chapter questions the argument advanced by Professor John Griffiths in 2008 that the Dutch system of control of euthanasia had become effective. The chapter points out that, by relying on self-reporting by doctors, the system remained as 'intrinsically ineffective' as he noted it was in 1998; that there was still much intentional life-shortening which fell outside the Act's regulatory scheme; that the intepretation and enforcement of the guidelines by the review committees was lax; and that non-voluntary euthanasia had been condoned by the courts in relation to both infants and incompetent adults.
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- Euthanasia, Ethics and Public PolicyAn Argument against Legalisation, pp. 133 - 143Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018