Anthropologies of Hope and Despair: Disability and the Assisted-Suicide Debate

The physical criteria that determine who is and who is not eligible for assisted suicide imply that some lives-such as lives with disability-are less "objectively" worthwhile than others. Besides being degrading and discriminatory, this view is self-deceived. Aging makes both the nondisabl...

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Main Author: Elliot, David 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2018]
In: Journal of disability & religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 352-367
Further subjects:B Disability
B end of life
B Assisted Suicide
B Misanthropy
B Dying
B Hope
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)