โ Scribed by David C. Thomasma, Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner, G.L Kimsma, C. Ciesielski-Carlucci
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The Dutch experience with euthanasia is valuable for all cultures embroiled in debates about its morality. In the Netherlands, doctors can openly and intentionally end the life of their patients. This practice inescapably influences the practice of medicine everywhere in the world. Yet for a country yielding so much power in shaping our thoughts and policies, it is especially dangerous to neglect its own struggles with euthanasia. The arguments, laws, and policy adjustments should not be overlooked or misunderstood. Without an adequate portrait of the internal Dutch debate, including public and professional arguments as well as intensely personal stories - as set forth in Asking to Die - the valuable lessons from the Netherlands will be lost for other countries. This book therefore differs from other published books on euthanasia in that it addresses the debate, as it is currently formulated, among Dutch physicians, policy-makers, academics, lawyers, and bioethicists, as well as families, and it does so using academic papers as well as personal experiences.
Table of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 16
About the Editors......Page 18
Contributors......Page 20
PROLOGUE......Page 22
DUTCH DEFINITION OF EUTHANASIA......Page 24
PART I: Toward a Dutch Compromise: Perspectives from Government, Law, Medicine, and Academia......Page 26
INTRODUCTION: Reexamining "Thou Shalt Not Kill"......Page 28
SECTION ONE: Structuring the Public Policy Debate......Page 38
CHAPTER ONE: Twenty-Five Years of Dutch Experience and Policy on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: An Overview......Page 40
CHAPTER TWO: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and the USA: Comparing Practices, Justifications and Key Concepts in Bioethics and Law......Page 56
CHAPTER THREE: Physican Assisted Suicide: An Analysis of Case Law and Professional Opinions......Page 92
CHAPTER FOUR: The Slippery Slope: Are the Dutch Sliding Down or Are They Clambering Up?......Page 114
CHAPTER FIVE: Teaching Euthanasia: The Integration of the Practice of Euthanasia into Grief, Death and Dying Curricula of Post-Graduate Family Medicine Training......Page 126
CHAPTER SIX: Comparing Two Euthanasia Protocols: The Free University of Amsterdam Academic Hospital and the Medical Center of Alkmaar......Page 136
CHAPTER SEVEN: Euthanasia Drugs in the Netherlands......Page 156
CHAPTER EIGHT: Empirical Research on Euthanasia and Other Medical End-of-Life Decisions and the Euthanasia Notification Procedure......Page 170
SECTION TWO: Current Commentary......Page 206
CHAPTER NINE: Palliative Care: Dutch Hospice and Euthanasia......Page 208
CHAPTER TEN: Euthanasia and the Power of Medicine......Page 226
CHAPTER ELEVEN: A Religious Argument in Favor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide......Page 242
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Range of Objections to Euthanasia......Page 248
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Catholic Healthcare and the Dutch National Character......Page 262
PART II: Living with Euthanasia: Physicans and Families Speak for Themselves......Page 276
INTRODUCTION: Reexamining "Do No Harm"......Page 278
SECTION ONE: Physician Stories......Page 288
Euthanasia at Home......Page 290
CHAPTER ONE: Annie Asked, "Are You Going to Help Me?"......Page 292
CHAPTER TWO: "In Death He Achieved a Stature that He Never Had in Life"......Page 302
CHAPTER THREE: "The Moment Will Come When I Will Have to Kill Him"......Page 314
CHAPTER FOUR: "Killing is Always Bad, But Not Always the Worst Alternative"......Page 324
CHAPTER FIVE: "A Tragedy"......Page 330
CHAPTER SIX: "The Euthanasia Mountain Gets Higher and Higher"......Page 334
CHAPTER SEVEN: "I Will Not Leave You Alone"......Page 342
Euthanasia in an Institutional Setting......Page 356
CHAPTER EIGHT: "The Worst Moments of My Life"......Page 358
CHAPTER NINE: "Euthanasia Is Not So Much About Shortening Life, But More Directly About Shortening Suffering"......Page 366
CHAPTER TEN: Euthanasia in the Nursing Home: "We Had a Problem Not to Let the Other Patients Know What Was Happening"......Page 370
CHAPTER ELEVEN: "Just What Are We Doing?"......Page 376
Public Cases and Issues......Page 386
CHAPTER TWELVE: "I Was the First Physician in the Netherlands Prosecuted for Performing Euthanasia on a Patient Who Was Not a Relative"......Page 388
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Arlene Judith Klotzko and Dr. Boudewign Chabot Discuss Assisted Suicide in the Absence of Somatic Illness......Page 394
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: What Kind of Life? What Kind of Death? An Interview with Dr. Henk Prins......Page 410
SECTION TWO: Family Stories......Page 428
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: "What Is There to Be Frightened About? After All, It's Not Like I Am Going to the Dentist!"......Page 430
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Story of Laurens......Page 438
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: "I Walked Out Into The Kitchen; I Could Not Endure It"......Page 442
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: "He Was Dead Before He Even Passed Away"......Page 446
CHAPTER NINETEEN: "We Will Have to Make of Life What We Can"......Page 452
CHAPTER TWENTY: A Double Life......Page 460
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: "You Will Do Well With The Children"......Page 470
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: "As Soon As Possible Please"......Page 476
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: "What Life Was Left to Live?"......Page 484
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: "I Don't Want To Be Put Away Like A Dog"......Page 492
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: "We Are Living in a House of Death; Everyone Who Enters Here Will Die"......Page 502
PART III: Euthanasia: Promises and Perils......Page 506
CHAPTER ONE: The Hard Unanswered Questions: Issues That Continue to Divide the Dutch and Fuel Debate......Page 508
CHAPTER TWO: New Directions......Page 526
A......Page 538
B......Page 541
C......Page 543
D......Page 550
E......Page 555
F......Page 558
G......Page 561
H......Page 562
I......Page 565
J......Page 568
L......Page 569
M......Page 573
N......Page 577
O......Page 580
P......Page 581
R......Page 589
S......Page 593
T......Page 599
U......Page 602
V......Page 603
W......Page 604
Z......Page 605
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