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Unbalanced: Mental Illness, MAID and Medico-legal Principles
On March 17, 2021 the Parliament of Canada passed Bill C-7Bill C-7, an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada, expanding access to medical...
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Due Care in the Context of Euthanasia Requests by Persons with Psychiatric Illness: Lessons from a Recent Criminal Trial in Belgium
Belgium is one of very few countries where euthanasia on the basis of psychiatric illness is legally possible. Three physicians involved in the...
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MAID for Mental Illness: What Exactly is Being Consented To?
The Canadian MAID framework for mental illness will permit suicide facilitation under the guise of medical practice. MAID for mental illness is being...
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Autonomy, Interests, Justice and Active Medical Euthanasia
There are 4 main arguments for euthanasia: (1) arguments appealing to consistency (e.g., from passive to active euthanasia); (2) the argument from...
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MAID for Persons with Mental Illness as a Sole Eligibility Criterion
The practice of EuthanasiaEuthanasia and Assisted SuicideSuicide (EAS), referred to in CanadaCanada as “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID), evolved...
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Ethical perspectives regarding Euthanasia, including in the context of adult psychiatry: a qualitative interview study among healthcare workers in Belgium
IntroductionPrevious research has explored euthanasia’s ethical dimensions, primarily focusing on general practice and, to a lesser extent,...
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Mental Illness, Lack of Autonomy, and Physician-Assisted Death
In this chapter, I consider the idea that physician-assisted death might come into question in the cases of psychiatric patients who are incapable of...
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Battlefield Euthanasia: Ethics and the Law
After briefly narrating the evolution of Western ethical reflections on suicide and euthanasia, I argue that because people have a prima facie right...
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The religious character of secular arguments supporting euthanasia and what it implies for conscientious practice in medicine
Contemporary bioethics generally stipulates that public moral deliberation must avoid allowing religious beliefs to influence or justify health...
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James Rachels and the morality of euthanasia
My fundamental thesis is that Rachels dismisses the traditional Western account of the morality of killing without offering a viable replacement. In...
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African Theories of Human Dignity: Euthanasia, Animal Ethics and Disability
This chapter applies African theories of human dignity to select themes in applied ethics. Specifically, it applies the four theories of human...
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Attitudes on euthanasia among medical students and doctors in Sri Lanka: a cross sectional study
BackgroundEuthanasia is a topic of intense ethical debate and it is illegal in most countries at present, including Sri Lanka. The aim of this...
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Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study
BackgroundHuntington’s disease (HD) has a poor prognosis. For HD patients in the Netherlands, one way of dealing with their poor prognosis is by...
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Dying to Live: Transhumanism, Cryonics, and Euthanasia
It might seem counterintuitive to think transhumanists, who are typically characterized by extreme techno-optimism and hope for radical...
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Death on Demand?: Canada’s Culture and Values at a Crossroads
The 2015 Supreme Court of Canada decision Carter v. Canada marks an inflection point in legal and medical thought and practice. For the first time...
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Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Bioethics in Nazi and Contemporary Cinema
Today, physician-assisted suicidePhysician-assisted suicide and/or euthanasiaEuthanasia are legal in several European countries, Canada, several...
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Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review
BackgroundMedical assistance in dying (MAiD) sparks debate in several countries, some of which allow or plan to allow MAiD where a mental disorder is...
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Valuing Life and Evaluating Suffering in Infants with Life-Limiting Illness
In this paper, we explore three separate questions that are relevant to assessing the prudential value of life in infants with severe life-limiting...
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Treatment, Placebos and Nocebos
Treatment in medicine is a medical intervention that can be performative, intentional, emotional, hortatory, or persuasive, which assumes patient...
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Bioethics and the Krankenmorde: Disability and Diversity
Between 1933 and 1945, almost 300,000 people were murdered and 360,000 sterilized by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime under a group of crimes now...