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Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia

Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia


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The Dutch experience with euthanasia is valuable for all cultures embroiled in debates about its morality. In the Netherlands, doctors can openly and intentionally end the life of their patients. This practice inescapably influences the practice of medicine everywhere in the world. Yet for a country yielding so much power in shaping our thoughts and policies, it is especially dangerous to neglect its own struggles with euthanasia. The arguments, laws, and policy adjustments should not be overlooked or misunderstood. Without an adequate portrait of the internal Dutch debate, including public and professional arguments as well as intensely personal stories - as set forth in "Asking to Die" - the valuable lessons from the Netherlands will be lost for other countries. This book addresses the debate among Dutch physicians, policy-makers, academics, lawyers, and bioethicists, as well as families, and it does so using academic papers as well as personal experiences.

Table of Contents:
Prologue.- Prologue.- The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia.- The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia.- Toward a Dutch Compromise: Perspectives from Government, Law, Medicine, and Academia.- Twenty-Five Years of Dutch Experience and Policy on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: An Overview.- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and the USA: Comparing Practices, Justifications and Key Concepts in Bioethics and Law.- Physician Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: An Analysis of Case Law and Professional Opinions.- The Slippery Slope: Are The Dutch Sliding Down or Are They Clambering Up?.- Teaching Euthanasia: The Integration of the Practice of Euthanasia into Grief, Death and Dying Curricula of Post-Graduate Family Medicine Training.- Comparing Two Euthanasia Protocols: The Free University of Amsterdam Academic Hospital and the Medical Center of Alkmaar.- Euthanasia Drugs in the Netherlands.- Empirical Research on Euthanasia and Other Medical End-of-Life Decisions and the Euthanasia Notification Procedure.- Palliative Care: Dutch Hospice and Euthanasia.- Euthanasia and the Power of Medicine.- A Religious Argument in Favor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide.- The Range of Objections to Euthanasia.- Catholic Healthcare and the Dutch National Character.- Living with Euthanasia: Physicians and Families Speak for Themselves.- Annie Asked, “Are You Going to Help Me?”.- “In Death He Achieved a Stature that He Never Had in Life”.- “The Moment Will Come When I Will Have to Kill Him”.- “Killing is Always Bad, But Not Always the Worst Alternative”.- “A Tragedy”.- “The Euthanasia Mountain Gets Higher and Higher”.- “I Will Not Leave You Alone”.- “The Worst Moments of My Life”.- “Euthanasia is Not So Much About Shortening Life, But More Directly AboutShortening Suffering”.- Euthanasia in the Nursing Home: “We Had a Problem Not to Let the Other Patients Know What Was Happening”.- “Just What Are We Doing?”.- “I was the First Physician in the Netherlands Prosecuted for Performing Euthanasia on a Patient Who was not a Relative.”.- Arlene Judith Klotzko and Dr. Boudewijn Chabot Discuss Assisted Suicide in the Absence of Somatic Illness.- What Kind of Life? What Kind of Death? An Interview with Dr. Henk Prins.- “What is There to Be Frightened About? After All, It’s Not Like I Am Going to the Dentist!”.- The Story of Laurens.- “I Walked Out Into The Kitchen; I Could Not Endure It”.- “He Was Dead Before He Even Passed Away”.- “We Will Have to Make of Life What We Can”.- A Double Life.- “You Will Do Well With The Children”.- “As Soon As Possible Please”.- “What Life Was Left to Live?”.- “I Don’t Want To Be Put Away Like A Dog”.- “We Are Living in a House of Death; Everyone Who Enters Here Will Die”.- Euthanasia: Promises and Perils.- The Hard Unanswered Questions: Issues That Continue to Divide the Dutch and Fuel Debate.- New Directions.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780792351863
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 588
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 079235186X
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 178 mm


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