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Social necessity, individual rights, and the needs of the fragile
— euthanasia in the context of end-of-life decision making | | Author(s) | Tom Koch, Kathryn L Braun, James H Pietsch |
| Journal title | Journal of Ethics, Law, and Aging, vol 5, no 1, Spring/Summer 1999 |
| Pages | pp 17-28 |
| Keywords | Euthanasia ; Rights [elderly] ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Social ethics ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Legal and social debates over bioethical issues typically swing between two apparently irreconcilable principles. The first argues for individual self-determination, while the second argues for the need to diminish the social cost of maintaining the fragile. A third position, one put forward by disability campaigners, suggests that a failure to provide social support presents a context in which choices for a continuing quality of life are restricted. This article conceptualises the "moral space" created by these separate positions, and reports on the use of a multicultural, multigenerational survey of attitudes toward end-of-life issues to discuss its relative position. Results reported in this paper focus on responses to survey questions concerning euthanasia as a way of understanding the relationship between social support, individual decision making, and cultural variables as perceived by participating older people and their adult children in Honolulu, Hawaii. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990427209 A |
| Classmark | CY: IKR: CX: LV: TQ: 3F: 7T |
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