Should a Legal Option of Physician-Assisted Death Include Those Who Are "Tired of Life"? Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Should there be a legal option of physician-assisted death? If so, what criteria should define its scope and limits? Answers to these questions are contested and controversial. In this essay I examine considerations for and against making physician-assisted death available for individuals of advanced age who are not terminally ill but find their lives no longer worth living.

publication date

  • January 1, 2016

Research

keywords

  • Ethics, Medical
  • Quality of Life
  • Suicide, Assisted

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85018388778

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1353/pbm.2016.0030

PubMed ID

  • 28479577

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 59

issue

  • 3