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

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

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”. Conse...

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Autores principales: Berthod Marc-Antoine, Pillonel Alexandre, Dransart Dolores Angela Castelli
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Publicado: Sciendo 2021
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assisted dying
switzerland
collectivity
acceptability criteria
pattern for misconduct
Sociology (General)
HM401-1281
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:9da6dc4367ab4c6a863f91b1dd821beb2021-12-05T14:11:11ZAssisted Suicide in Switzerland: the Advent of a “Pattern for Misconduct”2297-834810.2478/sjs-2021-0001https://doaj.org/article/9da6dc4367ab4c6a863f91b1dd821beb2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0001https://doaj.org/toc/2297-8348This 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.Berthod Marc-AntoinePillonel AlexandreDransart Dolores Angela CastelliSciendoarticleassisted dyingswitzerlandcollectivityacceptability criteriapattern for misconductSociology (General)HM401-1281DEENFRSwiss Journal of Sociology, Vol 47, Iss 3, Pp 537-554 (2021)
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EN
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topic assisted dying
switzerland
collectivity
acceptability criteria
pattern for misconduct
Sociology (General)
HM401-1281
spellingShingle assisted dying
switzerland
collectivity
acceptability criteria
pattern for misconduct
Sociology (General)
HM401-1281
Berthod Marc-Antoine
Pillonel Alexandre
Dransart Dolores Angela Castelli
Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: the Advent of a “Pattern for Misconduct”
description 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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Pillonel Alexandre
Dransart Dolores Angela Castelli
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title Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: the Advent of a “Pattern for Misconduct”
title_short Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: the Advent of a “Pattern for Misconduct”
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title_fullStr Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: the Advent of a “Pattern for Misconduct”
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title_sort assisted suicide in switzerland: the advent of a “pattern for misconduct”
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