Eutanasia voluntaria
La eutanasia voluntaria es la práctica de la finalización de la vida de una manera indolora. Tanto esta como el suicidio asistido han sido focos de interés a lo largo de los últimos años.
A fecha de 2009 existen formas legales de eutanasia voluntaria en Bélgica,[1] Colombia,[2] Luxemburgo,[3] Países Bajos,[1] Suiza[1] y Canadá.[4]
Definición
editarEl rechazo voluntario de alimento y fluidos o la renuncia a la nutrición e hidratación por parte del paciente, bordean el concepto de eutanasia; de hecho, algunos autores lo clasifican como eutanasia pasiva[5] mientras otros lo consideran de forma separada porque se trata de modo diferente desde el punto de vista legal y, se percibe así como una opción más ética.[6] El rechazo de alimentos se sugiere como una alternativa legal a la eutanasia en jurisdicciones que la prohíben.[cita requerida]
Véase también
editar- Dispositivo de suicidio.
- Arthur Koestler, escritor y vicepresidente de EXIT.
- Brittany Maynard, defensora de la legalización de la ayuda para morir.
- Chantal Sébire, activista por la eutanasia.
- Derek Humphry, fundador de la Hemlock Society, presidente de ERGO y expresidente de la Federación Mundial de Sociedades por el Derecho a Morir y autor de Final Exit.
- John Bodkin Adams, Eastbourne, England doctor, tried for murder in 1957 but claimed euthanasia. Acquitted.
- Kaishakunin, asistente en el ritual japonés del seppuku.
- Peter Singer, bioético y utilitarista.
- Philip Nitschke.
- Ubasute, concepto de sacrificio en personas mayores para no ser una carga para generaciones jóvenes.
- Suicidio asistido en los Estados Unidos
Referencias
editar- ↑ a b c «Euthanasia and the law». BBC News. 23 de diciembre de 2002.
- ↑ «Colombia just legalized euthanasia. Here's why that's a big deal». pri.org. 29 de abril de 2015.
- ↑ «Luxembourg says 'yes' to euthanasia». Daily Mail. 20 de febrero de 2008.
- ↑ http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-quebec-euthanasia-case-confirmed-two-others-reported
- ↑ Patient Refusal of Nutrition and Hydration: Walking the Ever-Finer Line Archivado el 13 de octubre de 2008 en Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Harvath, TA. (mayo de 2004). «Voluntary refusal of food and fluids: attitudes of Oregon hospice nurses and social workers». Int J Palliat Nurs. 10 (5): 236-41. PMID 15215708.
Bibliografía en inglés
editar- Giorgio Agamben (1998). Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3218-3.
- Appel, Jacob. 2007. A Suicide Right for the Mentally Ill? A Swiss Case Opens a New Debate. Hastings Center Report, Vol. 37, No. 3.
- Battin, Margaret P., Rhodes, Rosamond, and Silvers, Anita, eds. Physician assisted suicide: expanding the debate. NY: Routledge, 1998.
- Brock, Dan. Life and Death Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- Raphael Cohen-Almagor (2001). The right to die with dignity: an argument in ethics, medicine, and law. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2986-7.
- Dworkin, R. M. Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1993.
- Emanuel, Ezekiel J. 2004. "The history of euthanasia debates in the United States and Britain" in Death and dying: a reader, edited by T. A. Shannon. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Fletcher, Joseph F. 1954. Morals and medicine; the moral problems of: the patient's right to know the truth, contraception, artificial insemination, sterilization, euthanasia. Princeton, N.J.K.: Princeton University Press.
- Dennis J. Horan, David Mall, eds. (1977). Death, dying, and euthanasia. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America. ISBN 0-89093-139-9.
- Humphry, Derek; Wickett, Ann (1986). The Right to Die: Understanding Euthanasia (1st edición). New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-0060155780. LCCN 85045737. OCLC 12942139. Consultado el 25 de noviembre de 2013.
- Humphry, Derek (26 de noviembre de 2002). Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying (3rd edición). New York, NY: Delta Trade Paperback. ISBN 978-0385336536. LCCN 2002019403. OCLC 49247323. Consultado el 25 de noviembre de 2013.
- Kamisar, Yale. 1977. Some non-religious views against proposed 'mercy-killing' legislation. In Death, dying, and euthanasia, edited by D. J. Horan and D. Mall. Washington: University Publications of America. Original edition, Minnesota Law Review 42:6 (May 1958).
- Kelly, Gerald. "The duty of using artificial means of preserving life" in Theological Studies (11:203–220), 1950.
- Kopelman, Loretta M., deVille, Kenneth A., eds. Physician-assisted suicide: What are the issues? Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. (E.g., Engelhardt on secular bioethics)
- Magnusson, Roger S. "The sanctity of life and the right to die: social and jurisprudential aspects of the euthanasia debate in Australia and the United States" in Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal (6:1), January 1997.
- Palmer, "Dr. Adams’ Trial for Murder" in The Criminal Law Review. (Reporting on R. v. Adams with Devlin J. at 375f.) 365–377, 1957.
- Panicola, Michael. 2004. Catholic teaching on prolonging life: setting the record straight. In Death and dying: a reader, edited by T. A. Shannon. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Paterson, Craig, "A History of Ideas Concerning Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia" (2005). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1029229
- Paterson, Craig. Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Natural Law Ethics Approach. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2008.
- PCSEPMBBR, United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. 1983. Deciding to forego life-sustaining treatment: a report on the ethical, medical, and legal issues in treatment decisions. Washington, DC: President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research: For sale by the Supt. of Docs. U.S. G.P.O.
- Rachels, James. The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Robertson, John. 1977. Involuntary euthanasia of defective newborns: a legal analysis. In Death, dying, and euthanasia, edited by D. J. Horan and D. Mall. Washington: University Publications of America. Original edition, Stanford Law Review 27 (1975) 213–269.
- Sacred congregation for the doctrine of the faith. 1980. The declaration on euthanasia. Vatican City: The Vatican.
- Stone, T. Howard, and Winslade, William J. "Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in the United States" in Journal of Legal Medicine (16:481–507), December 1995.
- Tassano, Fabian. The Power of Life or Death: Medical Coercion and the Euthanasia Debate. Foreword by Thomas Szasz, MD. London: Duckworth, 1995. Oxford: Oxford Forum, 1999.
Enlaces externos
editar- Wikcionario tiene definiciones y otra información sobre Euthanasia.
- Euthanasia
- Voluntary Euthanasia—Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy