TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - Active euthanasia and forgoing life-sustaining treatment: can we hold the line?
JO  - Journal of pain and symptom management
A1  - Jennings, B.
SP  - 312
EP  - 316
VL  - 6
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0885-3924
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0885-3924(91)90055-9
ID  - ref1
ER  -