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  • Euthanasia - A Novel Intricacy for Psychiatry’s Purview?

  • Í. Alberdi-Páramo, M. Pérez-Lombardo, J. Pemán-Rodríguez, J. E. Ibáñez Vizoso, R. Á. Baena Mures, L. Niell Galmés, J. Rodríguez Quijano, G. Montero-Hernández
  • Journal:
    European Psychiatry / Volume 67 / Issue S1 / April 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 August 2024, p. S332
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  • Introduction

    Numerous countries, notably within Europe, have sanctioned the practice of euthanasia. Extant legal frameworks meticulously define the extent, essence, and application of euthanasia, encompassing divergent characterizations, explications of entitlements, procedural modalities, and provisions for access. Nonetheless, the precise function of psychiatrists within these legislative contours remains conspicuously nebulous.

    Objectives

    The present inquiry undertakes a comprehensive evaluative review of the euthanasia phenomenon vis-à-vis the intricate tapestry of European legislative paradigms, with an emphasis on elucidating the multifaceted involvement of psychiatry within this evolving landscape.

    Methods

    A nuanced narrative review is undertaken, encapsulating the contemporary state-of-affairs, fundamental conceptual architectures, the tenets of the Spanish Organic Law 03/2021, and the pharmaceutic armamentarium deployed in the orchestration of euthanasic practices. Additionally, the methodological blueprint employed within a prominent tertiary healthcare institution situated in Madrid is meticulously expounded.

    Results

    To date, euthanasia has garnered legal imprimatur across diverse jurisdictions including, but not limited to, the Netherlands, Belgium, Colombia, Canada, Spain, and New Zealand. The ambit of assisted death and its application to the domain of mental infirmities is meticulously deconstructed. Within the overarching realm of foundational concepts, a rigorous delineation is rendered between euthanasia, medical succor in the throes of mortality, assisted self-termination, facilitated demise, provision of mortal release, judicious calibration of therapeutic enterprise, and the contours of palliative sedation. Distinction between the principal executor and the advisory consultant is rendered salient. The rubric of conscientious objection emerges as an inviolable entitlement of healthcare practitioners enmeshed in the provisionary matrix.

    The enduring incumbency of the psychiatrist as a pivotal appraiser of cognitive and volitional faculties holds firm. The conspicuous influence of psychopathological constellations upon the contours of euthanasia eligibility precipitates cogent deliberation.

    Conclusions

    As the frontiers of euthanasia expand to encompass an augmented array of legal jurisdictions, this study underscores the increasingly intricate role inhabited by psychiatrists in the matrix of evaluative assessments. The proclivity of mental maladies to exert a substantial gravitational pull upon determinations of eligibility for euthanasia accentuates the exigency for refined explication of roles and responsibilities within this evolving sphere, a clarion call resonant not only within the precincts of psychiatry but reverberating across the broader firmament of medical praxis.

    Disclosure of Interest

    None Declared

  • Cause and Because in Aristotle

  • G. R. G. Mure
  • Journal:
    Philosophy / Volume 50 / Issue 193 / July 1975
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    25 February 2009, pp. 356-357
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    July 1975

  • Philosophy, October 1974, contains an article entitled ‘Aristotle's Four Becauses’, by Professor Max Hocutt, who contends that Aristotle's aitia (or aition) means ‘a because’ or ‘an explanation’ rather than ‘a cause’ and should be translated accordingly. He argues (a) that only Aristotle's efficient ‘cause’ is a cause in the English sense of the word, and (b) that ‘Aristotle's theory of “causes” is simply an application of his theory of syllogistic to the analysis of scientific knowledge’ (p. 389). Both contentions deserve a word.

  • Hegel, Luther, and the Owl of Minerva

  • G. R. G. Mure
  • Journal:
    Philosophy / Volume 41 / Issue 156 / April 1966
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    25 February 2009, pp. 127-139
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    April 1966

  • For a century or so after his death Hegel's system excited, if not wider diversity of interpretation and more bitter controversy, then certainly more bewilderment, than had ever before befogged the battlefields of speculative thought. A few fervent disciples maintained that their master had achieved a system substantially if not in all detail final and complete, a philosophy destined to set at rest forever all serious philosophic doubt. Others agreed that this claim to finality was inherent in the system, but mocked openly, proclaiming Hegel an arrogant megalomaniac.

  • The Organic State1

  • G. R. G. Mure
  • Journal:
    Philosophy / Volume 24 / Issue 90 / July 1949
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    25 February 2009, pp. 205-218
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    July 1949

  • Is the State organic? Does it, or should it, in some way transcend the individual natures of its citizens, so as itself to be an individual more complete and of higher value than the singular individuals who compose it? Is it thus in some sense an organism, and are its citizens in some sense organs of it which gain for themselves a higher value and significance in subserving it?

  • Change

  • G. R. G. Mure
  • Journal:
    Philosophy / Volume 9 / Issue 36 / October 1934
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    25 February 2009, pp. 450-460
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    October 1934

  • § 21. Until a few years ago the hope of the physicist seems on the whole to have been that he would eventually be able to exhibit a single interconnected system of perfectly deterministic causal laws. He took the relation of cause and effect in all change to be such that from a determinate antecedent state of that which changes there must necessarily follow a different subsequent state of it, and it was assumed by him that complete knowledge of the antecedent state must enable exact prediction of the subsequent state. I do not think it matters here whether that which changes was taken as a limited subject of change or as the whole physical world.

  • Change1

  • G. R. G. Mure, M.A.
  • Journal:
    Philosophy / Volume 9 / Issue 35 / July 1934
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    25 February 2009, pp. 293-301
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    July 1934

  • § 1. Of all the subjects which for well over two thousand years have remained the more or less constant topics of philosophical discussion, I can think of none which has not at some time by some philosopher been dismissed as a nonentity or an illusion. The history of philosophy seems to show that we cannot begin fairly to estimate the nature of any element in the universe until we have steadily contemplated a universe from which that element has been hypothetically eliminated.

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