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Rather than championing a medical model of assisted dying, The BMJ should be challenging the underlying discriminatory assumptions

BMJ (Online), 2021-10, Vol.375, p.n2483-n2483 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Rather than championing a medical model of assisted dying, The BMJ should be challenging the underlying discriminatory assumptions
  • Author: Thomas, H Lucy
  • Subjects: Annual reports ; Assisted suicide ; Disability ; Disabled people ; Euthanasia ; Letters ; Patients ; Social interactions ; Society ; Suicide ; Suicides & suicide attempts
  • Is Part Of: BMJ (Online), 2021-10, Vol.375, p.n2483-n2483
  • Description: 12 But she uses her position to champion a profoundly medicalised model of assisted dying and does not address the implications for patients, doctors, and society.2 Consistent evidence shows that the desire to hasten death by people with terminal illnesses is unstable and heavily influenced by social, psychological, and existential issues such as lack of social support, depression, feeling a burden, and loss of meaning—not fundamentally different to suicidal ideation in other circumstances.3 Medically assisted dying, however, requires doctors to respond in a radically different way to patients expressing the desire to end their life if they have an eligible medical condition—in Meacher’s bill a prognosis of less than six months, with countries that have legalised the practice having extended eligibility to a much wider range of illnesses and disabilities after inevitable legal challenges.456 The editors reassure doctors that they could opt out of personal involvement. Euthanasia, assisted suicide and non-resuscitation on request. https://www.government.nl/topics/euthanasia/euthanasia-assisted-suicide-and-non-resuscitation-on-request 6 Raus K Vanderhaegen B Sterckx S. Euthanasia in Belgium: Shortcomings of the law and its application and of the monitoring of practice. Oregon Death with Dignity Act annual reports. https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES/EVALUATIONRESEARCH/DEATHWITHDIGNITYACT/Pages/ar-index.aspx 8 United Nations, Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner.
  • Publisher: London: British Medical Journal Publishing Group
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1756-1833
    EISSN: 1756-1833
    DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n2483
    PMID: 34645598
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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