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Human dignity and the right to assisted suicide

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2017
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Baumann, H., & Schaber, P. (2017). Human dignity and the right to assisted suicide. In S. Muders (Ed.), Human dignity and assisted death (Vol. 1, pp. 218–229). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190675967.003.0013

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If a person competently requests another person to assist her in dying, she thereby exercises her normative power to make the act permissible that belongs to her rights over her own body. Denying a person this normative power means, on the view developed in this chapter, to disrespect her human dignity. We thus argue against views that regard terminating one’s own life (by the help of others) as morally impermissible for reasons of human dignity. At the same time, however, we do not think that exercises of a person’s normative power t

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  • Muders, Sebastian

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Human dignity and assisted death

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Oxford

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218

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229

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right versus permissibility, assisted suicide, dignity as a status, dignity as a value, normative authority over one’s body

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English

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2017-10

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2017-12-15

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9780190675967

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503 since deposited on 2017-12-15
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Baumann, H., & Schaber, P. (2017). Human dignity and the right to assisted suicide. In S. Muders (Ed.), Human dignity and assisted death (Vol. 1, pp. 218–229). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190675967.003.0013

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