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Last Rites and Wrongs—Euthanasia: Autonomy and Responsibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

John Dawson
John Dawson
Affiliation:
Scientific and International Affairs Division of the British Medical Association
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The word “euthanasia” is hopelessly overloaded with emotional connotations. It means so many things to many different people. The implications of euthanasia associated with the Second World War have often rendered the term unsuitable for discussions of a rational manner. As far as I am concerned, what happened in Germany under Hitler had nothing to do with the classic meaning of a gentle and easy death but was rather simply a policy of mass murder.

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International
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Winter 1992 , pp. 81 - 83
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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