Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: the Advent of a “Pattern for Misconduct”

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0001

Keywords:

Assisted dying, Switzerland, collectivity, acceptability criteria, pattern for misconduct

Abstract

This article analyses the peculiarity of the assisted dying’s model in Switzerland. It postulates that the collectivity does not accept the act of suicide in itself; it rather accepts the fact of providing assistance for a death that is up to this day formally categorized as a “violent death”. Consequently, the framing of assisted dying and its implementation can be construed as a “pattern for misconduct”, which opens an original and pragmatic angle to understand one of the social issues in relation with the contemporary ways to end one’s life.

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Article

Issue 3

Section

Articles

Number

537554

Language

English

Published

2021-11-23