Citation

Hazif-Thomas C, Grange R, Thomas P. NPG Neurologie - Psychiatrie - Geriatrie 2014; 14(81): 123-130.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014)

DOI

10.1016/j.npg.2014.01.001

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Raising the question of the end of life in contrast to the hunger of life could seem challenging in the current debate, opening the possibility of supervising the euthanasia request. Yet, it is legitimate to reconsider the philosophical and legal questions that this issue underlines. It is also important to accept to look at the ethical and human implications of bio-individual medicine, which may neutralize the ill person and even annihilate his/her singularity; that of a person conscious of his/her mortality but who is not allowed to request the community to program his/her death. The euthanasia request has become increasingly medicalized and has taken the form of an increasingly announced assisted suicide. One should therefore be careful to avoid the consecration of a "pseudo-suicide". © 2014.

Language: fr

Keywords

Ethics; Vulnerability; Euthanasia; Assisted suicide; Bio-individual; Pseudo-suicide