A Legal Right to Die: Responding to Slippery Slope and Abuse Arguments

D. Benatar

doi:10.3747/co.v18i5.923

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Editorial

1 October 2011

A Legal Right to Die: Responding to Slippery Slope and Abuse Arguments

Philosophy Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa

Curr. Oncol.2011, 18(5), 206-207;https://doi.org/10.3747/co.v18i5.923

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To be forced to continue living a life that one deems intolerable when there are doctors who are willing either to end one’s life or to assist one in ending one’s own life, is an unspeakable violation of an individual’s freedom to live—and to die—as he or she sees fit.[...]

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