Netherlands OKs Assisted Suicide / Carol J. Williams.
by Williams, Carol J; Diaz, Justice Carlos Gaviria; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 68Family. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2001; Hemlock Society, 2001ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Right to die | Right to life | Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation | Assisted suicide -- Netherlands | Euthanasia -- Law and legislation | Euthanasia -- Latin America | Euthanasia -- Netherlands | Colombia -- ConstitutionDDC classification: 050 Summary: "NETHERLANDS OKS ASSISTED SUICIDE" --- "In what was both feared and celebrated as a morally groundbreaking decision, the Dutch Senate on Tuesday [April 10, 2001] enshrined in a law a terminally ill patient's right to suicide and a doctor's immunity from prosecution for assisting." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article relays that a law permitting the practice of euthanasia was implemented in the Netherlands and examines the implications of this decision on the Dutch population.Summary: "ACTIVE EUTHANASIA AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF COLOMBIA" --- "While the recent legalization of active authanasia in the Netherlands has been widely praised for its humanity, it has been little recognized that this step was already taken in 1997 by the state of Colombia. The legal arguments surrounding euthanasia are addresed here in a clear and straightforward manner by the Chief Justice of the Colombian Constitutional Court." (HUMANE IN CANADA)
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Netherlands OKs Assisted Suicide, April 11, 2001; pp. n.p..
Originally Published: Active Euthanasia and the Constitutional Court of Colombia.
"NETHERLANDS OKS ASSISTED SUICIDE" --- "In what was both feared and celebrated as a morally groundbreaking decision, the Dutch Senate on Tuesday [April 10, 2001] enshrined in a law a terminally ill patient's right to suicide and a doctor's immunity from prosecution for assisting." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article relays that a law permitting the practice of euthanasia was implemented in the Netherlands and examines the implications of this decision on the Dutch population.
"ACTIVE EUTHANASIA AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF COLOMBIA" --- "While the recent legalization of active authanasia in the Netherlands has been widely praised for its humanity, it has been little recognized that this step was already taken in 1997 by the state of Colombia. The legal arguments surrounding euthanasia are addresed here in a clear and straightforward manner by the Chief Justice of the Colombian Constitutional Court." (HUMANE IN CANADA)
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