HSS 4107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Palliative Care, Force Majeure, Assisted Suicide

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 4107
• Professor: Stuart Chambers

Document Summary

When dutch legal and medical experts testified before the special senate committee on. Euthanasia and assisted suicide (october 25th, 1994), how did the dutch explain (cid:373)is(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s of the (cid:862)slippery slope(cid:863) i(cid:374) the follo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g circumstances: 5 myths: demise of palliative care. Dutch did not see it this way. 1) no evidence that euthanasia stole resources from palliative care. People dying at home at 1 week to 1 month to live; only at the very end of life it shifted to euthanasia; they are complimentary; obitorium is where euthanasia took place. 2)such a low number of cases of euthanasia then it shows that palliative care is still working. 3) only 5% of cases listed physical pain as a reason for them searching for euthanasia: medical treatment of the poor (economic incentives to euthanize) Believe that all the poor people will kill themselves. 1) they will not kill themselves because 100% of people are insured for medical reasons.