Voluntary active euthanasia: Is there a place for it in modern day medicine?

Ogunbanjo, GA; Bogaert, D Knapp van

doi:10.1080/20786204.2008.10873714

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“…Voluntary active euthanasia refers to a clearly competent patient making a voluntary and persistent request for aid in dying Ogubanjo & Knapp van Bogaert 2008). In this case, the individual or a person acting on that individual's behalf (physician or lay person, depending on the law of the country) takes active steps to hasten death (LaFollette, 1997).…”

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Euthanasia - The "Good Death" Controversy in Humans and Animals

Kuře¹

2011

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Aristotle's argument about suicide as injustice towards the state (just acts are those in accordance with virtue prescribed by the law and since the law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not expressly permit it forbids, suicide is a violation of the law which harms others and therefore a person committing suicide is acting unjustly) was later adopted by Thomas Aquinas, who connected this argument with natural law. 13 "Now death is the most terrible of all things; for it is the end, and nothing is thought to be any longer either good or bad for the dead. But the brave man would not seem to be concerned even with death in all circumstances, e.g. at sea or in disease. […] He will be called brave who is fearless in face of a noble death (καλον θάνατον), and of all emergencies that involve death." Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, III/9, 1115a.42 "… being assured that if they thus deliver themselves from torture, or are willing that others should do it." -Ibidem. 43 Ibidem. 44 The full and original title of the book is "Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia". 45 In the addendum to his book, More proposed to change the semantics and to transform "utopia" to "eutopia": "Wherfore not Utopia, but rather rightely my name is Eutopia, a place of felicity". 46 This aphorism can already be found in Bacon's work Meditationes sacrae (1597); nevertheless this aphorism is well known from his later work Novum organum (1620) where it established what is known today as the Baconian paradigm. 47 The original title of the work where Bacon deals with the medical art of "euthanasia exteriori" is Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane (English titled, written in Latin, published in London in 1605 by H. Tomes). Recently published under the title The advancement of learning (Oxford University Press, 2000). 48 Of the Proficience and Advancement of learning, divine and humane, Book I, X/7. 49 If Francis Bacon would have been writing his "Advancement of learning" today, he probably would include a passage about terminal sedation as a specific type of medical art that helps the patient to asleep/die peacefully. 75 This one line order of Hitler's can be found in books such as that by Urban Wiesing (2004, p. 60). 76 Therefore it is understandable that in Germany the term "euthanasia" (Euthanasie) still evokes strong associations with Nazism. 77 A theoretical handbook for racial hygiene is the study by F. Lenz "Menschliche Auslese und Rassenhygiene", published 1923 in Munich (3 rd edition in 1931. 78 The eugenic euthanasia as it was practised during the Nazi period is only mentioned here. For more detailed account see Michalsen &Reinhart (2006) and Vermaat (2002).

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