@article{ref1,
title="Active euthanasia and forgoing life-sustaining treatment: can we hold the line?",
journal="Journal of pain and symptom management",
year="1991",
author="Jennings, B.",
volume="6",
number="5",
pages="312-316",
abstract="Public sentiment in favor of permitting voluntary active euthanasia creates a dilemma for a bioethics rooted in a libertarian notion of autonomy. At stake in the active euthanasia debate is actually a question of power--the individual's assertion of sovereignty over the timing and circumstances of his or her own death. Also at stake is society's unwillingness to impose a conception of the good--and a good dying--on individuals whose personal values and conceptions of the good may differ. In order both to reject voluntary active euthanasia and to affirm the patient's right to forgo life-sustaining treatment, some societal conception of the good must be developed and agreed upon to counter unbridled claims of individual self-sovereignty over dying. Pragmatic arguments alone, such as the need to maintain confidence in the doctor-patient relationship, will not be sufficient.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0885-3924",
doi="10.1016/0885-3924(91)90055-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0885-3924(91)90055-9"
}