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To die with dignity

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  • Sampaio, Leonor

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This paper examines the conundrum facing an individual with a terminal disease who wishes to end his or her life in a manner that maintains a minimum of dignity. The State's interest versus the individual's right to live or die is examined in its various aspects. The interference by the State supplanting the Church as the authority that interprets the boundaries between life and death, with the individual losing his voice as well as his body to the impersonality of maintaining a life not worth living, is studied, as well as the implicit dangers when the freedom to decide when and who should die is measured against the present international economic situation. The need to listen to the language of the dying as well as to their need for a 'closure' is approached with a view to future study.

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  • Sampaio, Leonor, 1992. "To die with dignity," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 35(4), pages 433-441, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:35:y:1992:i:4:p:433-441
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