Citation

Berthod MA, Pillonel A, Dransart DAC. Swiss J. Sociol. 2021; 47(3): 537-554.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Walter De Gruyter)

DOI

10.2478/sjs-2021-0001

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article analyses the peculiarity of the assisted dying's model in Switzerland. It postulates that the collectivity does not accept the act of suicide in itself; it rather accepts the fact of providing assistance for a death that is up to this day formally categorized as a "violent death". Consequently, the framing of assisted dying and its implementation can be construed as a "pattern for misconduct", which opens an original and pragmatic angle to understand one of the social issues in relation with the contemporary ways to end one's life. © 2021 Marc-Antoine Berthod et al., published by Sciendo.

Language: fr

Keywords

Switzerland; Assisted dying; acceptability criteria; collectivity; pattern for misconduct