By Stuart J. Youngner, Gerrit K. Kimsma
This e-book is the 1st entire file and research of the Dutch euthanasia event during the last 3 many years. unlike so much books approximately euthanasia, that are written by means of authors from nations the place the perform is unlawful and consequently practiced merely secretly, this booklet analyzes empirical facts and real-life scientific habit. Its essays have been written through the best Dutch students and clinicians who formed euthanasia coverage and who've studied, evaluated, and helped control it. a few of them have themselves practiced euthanasia. The publication will give a contribution to the realm literature on physician-assisted dying via offering a complete exam of the way euthanasia has been practiced and the way it has developed in a single particular nationwide and cultural context. it's going to tremendously develop the certainty of euthanasia between either advocates and competitors of the perform.
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Although the term euthanasia immediately became important in this respect, it also created problems; it was a term that had traditionally had a broad meaning in the sense of a good or merciful death. This resulted in the decision by the Dutch right-to-die association, established in 1973 in the wake of the Postma case, to call itself the Dutch Association for Voluntary Euthanasia (Nederlandse Vereniging voor een Vrijwillige Euthanasie). The common definition of euthanasia in use until then had not included this element of voluntariness.