Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Prologue
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   Chapter 2 The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia
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   Chapter 3 Twenty-Five Years of Dutch Experience and Policy on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: An Overview
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   Chapter 4 Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and the USA: Comparing Practices, Justifications and Key Concepts in Bioethics and Law
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   Chapter 5 Physician Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: An Analysis of Case Law and Professional Opinions
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   Chapter 6 The Slippery Slope: Are The Dutch Sliding Down or Are They Clambering Up?
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   Chapter 7 Teaching Euthanasia: The Integration of the Practice of Euthanasia into Grief, Death and Dying Curricula of Post-Graduate Family Medicine Training
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   Chapter 8 Comparing Two Euthanasia Protocols: The Free University of Amsterdam Academic Hospital and the Medical Center of Alkmaar
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    Chapter 9 Euthanasia Drugs in the Netherlands
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    Chapter 10 Empirical Research on Euthanasia and Other Medical End-of-Life Decisions and the Euthanasia Notification Procedure
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    Chapter 11 Palliative Care: Dutch Hospice and Euthanasia
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    Chapter 12 Euthanasia and the Power of Medicine
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    Chapter 13 A Religious Argument in Favor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
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    Chapter 14 The Range of Objections to Euthanasia
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    Chapter 15 Catholic Healthcare and the Dutch National Character
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    Chapter 16 Annie Asked, “Are You Going to Help Me?”
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    Chapter 17 “In Death He Achieved a Stature that He Never Had in Life”
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    Chapter 18 “The Moment Will Come When I Will Have to Kill Him”
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    Chapter 19 “Killing is Always Bad, But Not Always the Worst Alternative”
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    Chapter 20 “A Tragedy”
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    Chapter 21 “The Euthanasia Mountain Gets Higher and Higher”
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    Chapter 22 “I Will Not Leave You Alone”
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    Chapter 23 “The Worst Moments of My Life”
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    Chapter 24 “Euthanasia is Not So Much About Shortening Life, But More Directly About Shortening Suffering”
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    Chapter 25 Euthanasia in the Nursing Home: “We Had a Problem Not to Let the Other Patients Know What Was Happening”
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    Chapter 26 “Just What Are We Doing?”
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    Chapter 27 “I was the First Physician in the Netherlands Prosecuted for Performing Euthanasia on a Patient Who was not a Relative.”
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    Chapter 28 Arlene Judith Klotzko and Dr. Boudewijn Chabot Discuss Assisted Suicide in the Absence of Somatic Illness
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    Chapter 29 What Kind of Life? What Kind of Death? An Interview with Dr. Henk Prins
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    Chapter 30 “What is There to Be Frightened About? After All, It’s Not Like I Am Going to the Dentist!”
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    Chapter 31 The Story of Laurens
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    Chapter 32 “I Walked Out Into The Kitchen; I Could Not Endure It”
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    Chapter 33 “He Was Dead Before He Even Passed Away”
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    Chapter 34 “We Will Have to Make of Life What We Can”
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    Chapter 35 A Double Life
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    Chapter 36 “You Will Do Well With The Children”
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    Chapter 37 “As Soon As Possible Please”
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    Chapter 38 “What Life Was Left to Live?”
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    Chapter 39 “I Don’t Want To Be Put Away Like A Dog”
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    Chapter 40 “We Are Living in a House of Death; Everyone Who Enters Here Will Die”
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    Chapter 41 The Hard Unanswered Questions: Issues That Continue to Divide the Dutch and Fuel Debate
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    Chapter 42 New Directions