英国の安楽死合法化法案

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Terminally ill adults who are expected to die within six months would be able to request assistance to end their own life, under proposed legislation for England and Wales to be debated by MPs later this month.

Under a bill published on Monday, two independent doctors would have to be satisfied someone is eligible and has made their decision voluntarily.

Requests would also have to be approved by a High Court judge.

 

 

The bill would require those who apply for assisted dying to:

  • Be over the age of 18, a resident in England and Wales and registered with a GP for at least 12 months
  • Have the mental capacity to make a choice about ending their life
  • Express a "clear, settled and informed" wish, free from coercion or pressure, at every stage of the process

There must be a seven-day gap between two doctors’ evaluations and a further 14 days after a judge's ruling before a person could be assisted to die, except when the person's death is expected imminently.

The individual would be allowed to change their mind at any time, and no doctors would be obliged to take part in the process.

The law would still forbid doctors or others from ending a person’s life. If all the criteria and safeguards are met, the substance to end someone's life must be self-administered.

Under the bill, a doctor may only prepare the substance or assist the individual to ingest.

WV州の住民投票で、州憲法に安楽死禁止明示が決まる

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Diane Colemanさんが亡くなっていた。Not Dead Yetの創設者。

 

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Amendment 1 would add to the bill a rights a line that says “No person, physician, or health care provider in the State of West Virginia shall participate in the practice of medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of a person.”

ケン・リュウ「愛のアルゴリズム」 (『紙の動物園」(ハヤカワ文庫2017))

 タラは開発に四年かかった。売れ筋のほかの人形の設計をするかたわら、秘密で彼女に取り組んだ。外見上はタラは五歳の女の子に似ていた。高価な移植組織レベルの剛性皮膚と合成ゲルがタラに清らかで天使のような顔つきを与えていた。瞳悪は黒く澄んでおり、永遠に見ていたくなるような目をしていた。

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 タラがそれまでに言ったりしたりしたことは、わたしにはなにも驚きではなかった。実際に口にするまえに彼女が言うであろうことはすべて予測できた。要するに私が彼女のなかのすべてをコード化したのであり、個々のインタラクションで彼女のニューラルネットワークがどう変化するのか、私は正確に把握していた。

 だが、ほかのだれもつゆほども疑わなかった。わたしは気持ちが昂揚してしかるべきだった。わたしの人形は現実の世界のチューリング・テストを通ったのだ。だが、わたしは怖くなった。タラのアルゴリズムは、知性を名ばかりのものにしたのだが、だれもわからなかったようだ。だれも気にすらしなかったようだ。

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【カナダ安楽死】夫の訴えにより予定の前日に裁判所がMAIDに中止命令

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According to court documents, the woman was approved for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in July by Vancouver MAiD provider Dr. Ellen Wiebe after her own doctors in southern Alberta wouldn't approve it.

Wiebe was scheduled to conduct the death at 8 p.m. on Oct. 27 at the Willow Reproductive Health Centre.

The injunction application and civil claim were filed by the woman's common-law spouse. Both names have been ordered anonymized by the court.

 

 

In the documents, the husband argues that his wife's condition — akathisia — does not qualify her for assisted death.

He also claims that the MAiD process was flawed and that his wife has mental health problems that "underpin her wish to apply for MAiD." 

People with mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition are not eligible for MAiD under current legislation.

 

 

The husband said she was assured by two experts that the condition was treatable but never followed their advice.

He said in early 2024 she began exploring MAiD and that after being refused by her own doctors in Alberta found Dr. Wiebe online. 

 

 

According to the husband, Wiebe did not speak to the woman's doctors directly but asked that she obtain and forward her own medical records. He said his wife's psychiatrist indicated she never requested her psychiatric records, which suggests they were not used in Wiebe's MAiD assessment process. 

According to the husband, Wiebe gave his wife approval for MAiD after their first Zoom meeting. 

He said because his wife couldn't get anyone to witness her completed form to obtain MAiD, a volunteer at Dr. Wiebe's clinic signed it.

He said because his wife did not have a doctor who would provide a second MAiD assessment, Wiebe arranged for another doctor to do it.

 

 

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Justice Simon R. Coval says in his reasons for granting the injunction that it was “clearly a situation of extreme irreparable harm.”

Coval says there is an “arguable case” about whether the assistance in dying criteria were properly applied in the case of the woman, who was granted anonymity by the court.

 

 

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