title: Right to die or duty to live? The problem of euthanasia.
abstract: Argument about euthanasia in Australia intensified following the world's first legal euthanasia death of Bob Dent under the Northern Territory's short-lived Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995. This paper takes stock of the implacably opposed positions on euthanasia following Bob Dent's death, which provides a focus for the controversy, and identifies the key doctrines which separate adversaries in the euthanasia debate and their associated incommensurable intuitions.
authors.affiliation: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia. wgrey@arts.uq.edu.au
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Grey
mesh_terms: D024362:Advance Directive Adherence; D001315:Australia; D026686:Beneficence; D034723:Double Effect Principle; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D005065:Euthanasia / Q000145:classification*; D033101:Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D006801:Humans; D015876:Northern Territory; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010819:Physician's Role; D012297:Right to Die / Q000941:ethics; D026712:Value of Life; D035761:Wedge Argument