ArticleHealth care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy2018
Are Concerns About Irremediableness, Vulnerability, or Competence Sufficient to Justify Excluding All Psychiatric Patients from Medical Aid in Dying?
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- Veterinary ethics and companion animal euthanasia: what can we learn from critical disability studies?Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Review
- Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review.BMC medical ethics · 2023Review
- Feeling Seen, Being Heard: Perspectives of Patients Suffering from Mental Illness on the Possibility of Physician-Assisted Death in the Netherlands.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2022Article
- Terminal anorexia nervosa: three cases and proposed clinical characteristics.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Physician Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Experiences in the Netherlands.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Social determinants of health and slippery slopes in assisted dying debates: lessons from Canada.Journal of medical ethics · 2021Article
- Experiences and views of Dutch general practitioners regarding physician-assisted death for patients suffering from severe mental illness: a mixed methods approach.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2021Article
- Irremediable Psychiatric Suffering in the Context of Physician-assisted Death: A Scoping Review of Arguments: La souffrance psychiatrique irrémédiable dans le contexte du suicide assisté : Une revue étendue des arguments.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2020Article
- Too much safety? Safeguards and equal access in the context of voluntary assisted dying legislation.BMC medical ethics · 2020Article
- "For Their Own Good": A Response to Popular Arguments Against Permitting Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) where Mental Illness Is the Sole Underlying Condition.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2018Article
- Euthanasia in adults with psychiatric conditions: A descriptive study of the experiences of Belgian psychiatrists.Science progressArticle
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Abstract
Some jurisdictions that have decriminalized assisted dying (like Canada) exclude psychiatric patients on the grounds that their condition cannot be determined to be irremediable, that they are vulnerable and in need of protection, or that they cannot be determined to be competent. We review each of these claims and find that none have been sufficiently well-supported to justify the differential treatment psychiatric patients experience with respect to assisted dying. We find bans on psychiatric patients' access to this service amount to arbitrary discrimination. Proponents of banning the practice ignore or overlook alternatives to their proposal, like an assisted dying regime with additional safeguards. Some authors have further criticized assisted dying for psychiatric patients by highlighting allegedly problematic practices in those countries which allow it. We address recent evidence from the Netherlands, showing that these problems are either misrepresented or have straightforward solutions. Even if one finds such evidence troubling despite our analysis, other jurisdictions need not adopt every feature of the Dutch system.
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