Autonomy, consent and the criminalisation of assisted dying
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2012
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Livings, B.
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Contemporary Issues in Law, 2012; 11(4):302-321
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A concern for personal autonomy is central to the seemingly intractable debate that rages around assisted dying, but it is often absent from the legal framework that currently governs, and largely proscribes, its various practices. This article examines the legal status of assisted dying, against the social and political discourses that surround it, asserting that the fragmented responses of the criminal justice system to practices such as assisted suicide, mercy killing and the doctrine of double effect manifest a disjunction between the debate and the substantive criminal law and wider policy response that has been effected.
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Copyright 2012 Lawtext Publishing Limited