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Euthanasia, dying well and the slippery slope
Author(s) -
Allmark Peter
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18081178.x
Subject(s) - slippery slope , argument (complex analysis) , set (abstract data type) , right to die , assisted suicide , resuscitation orders , psychology , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , medicine , psychiatry , surgery , computer science , programming language , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , resuscitation
Arguments in favour of voluntary euthanasia tend to be put in utilitarian terms This paper suggests an alternative, neo‐Aristotelian argument justifying certain individual acts of both suicide and voluntary euthanasia It goes on to examine the slippery slope arguments against legalizing euthanasia It is suggested that such arguments cut both ways However, the suggestion that we ought therefore to permit a social experiment in voluntary euthanasia is set alongside the Dutch experience The latter seems to imply that if such experiments are to take place then great caution needs to be applied