协助死亡,脆弱性,以及潜在的法律授权的潜在价值
Alexandra Mullock1, Jonathan Lewis2
1Law Department, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Medical law review
|April 17, 2025
概括
合法化辅助死亡 (AD) 需要理解脆弱性. 考虑自主权和潜在的法律授权的细微方法可以保护弱势个体,同时允许富有同情心的生命终结选择.
科学领域:
- 生物伦理学生物伦理学
- 医疗法 法律 医疗法
- 医学哲学 医学哲学
背景情况:
- 在协助死亡 (AD) 辩论中,脆弱性是关键问题.
- 脆弱性的概念及其在AD中的规范意义尚未得到充分探索.
- 当前的AD立法可能无法充分平衡保护弱势个人的个人自主权.
研究的目的:
- 通过脆弱性理论来检查AD中的脆弱性和保护义务.
- 在AD的背景下分析脆弱性和自主性之间的关系.
- 评估未来的法律授权,作为保护AD的弱势个人的机制.
主要方法:
- 使用脆弱性理论进行概念分析.
- 对英格兰和威尔士的AD现有法律框架和拟议立法进行审查.
- 自主权和保护义务的伦理分析.
主要成果:
- 对脆弱性的细微理解揭示了目前禁止AD的局限性.
- 未来的合法授权,尽管存在潜在的负担,但可以保护脆弱的个人.
- 这种方法可以增强终生自主性,并支持限制性合法的AD.
结论:
- 目前在英格兰和威尔士禁止协助死亡的禁令过于简单,缺乏同情心.
- 未来的法律授权为协助死亡提供了一个潜在的框架,可以采取更加富有同情心和尊重自主性的方法.
- 法律协助死亡的限制性模式,包括未来的授权,可以更好地保护脆弱的个人,同时尊重生命结束的自主权.
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