L’assistance au suicide en Suisse : ses particularités éthiques et historiques
Several countries have adopted legislation that authorises some form of euthanasia or assisted suicide. The provision of assisted suicide for altruistic motives has been legal in Switzerland for a long time. The historical roots of this liberal stance are interesting because they partly hark back to...
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| Language: | fra |
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L’Harmattan
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Droit et Cultures |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/4424 |
| Summary: | Several countries have adopted legislation that authorises some form of euthanasia or assisted suicide. The provision of assisted suicide for altruistic motives has been legal in Switzerland for a long time. The historical roots of this liberal stance are interesting because they partly hark back to earlier times, before the «modern» debates centred on personal autonomy as regards death. An accurate analysis of the Swiss normative situation is not easy since informal norms play a major role alongside positive statutes. We analyse this normative situation by making use of the concepts of privileges and claims as developed by W.N. Hohfeld and L. Wenar. We emphasize the importance of a philosophical reflection that goes beyond the bioethical controversy, with a view to clarifying the basic liberties involved in enabling assisted death. |
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| ISSN: | 0247-9788 2109-9421 |