Irony of supporting physician-assisted suicide: a personal account
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| School or College | College of Humanities |
| Department | Philosophy |
| Creator | Battin, Margaret P. |
| Title | Irony of supporting physician-assisted suicide: a personal account |
| Date | 2010-08 |
| Description | Under other circumstances, I would have written an academic paper rehearsing the arguments for and against legalization of physician-assisted suicide: autonomy and the avoidance of pain and suffering on the pro side, the wrongness of killing, the integrity of the medical profession, and the risk of abuse, the ?slippery slope,? on the con side. I?ve always supported the pro side. What this paper is, however, is a highly personal account of the challenges to my thinking about right-to-die issues. In November 2008, my husband suffered a C2/C3 spinal cord injury in a bicycle collision, leaving him ventilator-dependent, almost completely paralyzed, and in the hospital?but fully alert and profoundly self-reflective. What if he wanted to die? This paper draws from two multimedia presentations? |
| Type | Text |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| First Page | 403 |
| Last Page | 411 |
| Language | eng |
| Bibliographic Citation | Battin, M. P. (2010). Irony of supporting physician-assisted suicide: a personal account. Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 13(4), 403-11. |
| Rights Management | © Springer (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com) |
| Format Medium | application/pdf |
| Format Extent | 895,576 bytes |
| Identifier | ir-main,14770 |
| ARK | ark:/87278/s6hm5t3j |
| Setname | ir_uspace |
| ID | 707305 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6hm5t3j |