Assisted suicide and the discrimination argument: Can people with mental illness fulfill beneficence- and autonomy-based eligibility criteria?

According to the “discrimination argument,” it would be discriminatory and hence impermissible to categorically exclude people with mental illness (PMI) from access to assisted suicide (AS) if AS is accessible to people with somatic illnesses. In objection to this, it could be argued that excluding...

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Authors: Braun, Esther (Author) ; Scholten, Matthé (Author) ; Vollmann, Jochen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2024
In: Bioethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-68
IxTheo Classification:NBE Anthropology
NCH Medical ethics
XA Law
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B medical assistance in dying
B irremediability
B Mental Health
B Psychiatry
B decision-making capacity
B assisted dying
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