ArticleJournal of medical ethics2023
An autonomy-based approach to assisted suicide: a way to avoid the expressivist objection against assisted dying laws.
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- When No Will Can Be Interpreted or Communicated: Paediatric Euthanasia in a Case of a Never-Competent Minor with Profound Cognitive Disability in a Latin American Context.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026Article
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- Voluntary Assisted Dying for Grief: Medicalisation, a Proposed Autonomy-Only Approach, and Lessons From Prepubescent Gender Care.Bioethics · 2026Article
- An Expressivist Defence of Conscientious Objection in Physician-Assisted Dying.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026Article
- Expressivist concerns for assisted dying on request.Journal of medical ethics · 2026Article
- Pinpointing the politics of passing away. An empirical ethics case study on legislating assisted dying.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
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- Critical Medical Ethics as an Approach to the Debate About Assisted Suicide by the Example of Germany.Bioethics · 2026Article
- A reply to Reed on my 'Expressivist concerns for assisted dying on request'.Journal of medical ethics · 2026Article
- Life, death, and 280 characters: a hashtag analysis of #AssistedSuicide on X (2015-2025).Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Life, death, and ethics: medical and dental students' attitudes on assisted dying in Austria.BMC health services research · 2025Article
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- The night is dark and full of hesitation. The latest step in the legal trajectory of assisted suicide in Italy: through tentative judicial openings, bioethical contradictions and the Parliament's deafness.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
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Abstract
In several jurisdictions, irremediable suffering from a medical condition is a legal requirement for access to assisted dying. According to the expressivist objection, allowing assisted dying for a specific group of persons, such as those with irremediable medical conditions, expresses the judgment that their lives are not worth living. While the expressivist objection has often been used to argue that assisted dying should not be legalised, I show that there is an alternative solution available to its proponents. An autonomy-based approach to assisted suicide regards the provision of assisted suicide (but not euthanasia) as justified when it is autonomously requested by a person, irrespective of whether this is in her best interests. Such an approach has been put forward by a recent judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court, which understands assisted suicide as an expression of the person's right to a self-determined death. It does not allow for beneficence-based restrictions regarding the person's suffering or medical diagnosis and therefore avoids the expressivist objection. I argue that on an autonomy-based approach, assisted suicide should not be understood as a medical procedure but rather as the person's autonomous action.
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