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  • Title: Autonomy and assisted suicide. The execution of freedom.
    Author: Safranek JP.
    Journal: Hastings Cent Rep; 1998; 28(4):32-6. PubMed ID: 9762538.
    Abstract:
    Proponents of assisted suicide who base their arguments on autonomy err in ways that are little attended to. In the absence of a substantive theory of the good, in neither a descriptive nor an ascriptive sense can the concept of autonomy distinguish those acts that should be morally prohibited from those that may be permitted. And to impose a particular theory of the good, whether individual liberty or the sanctity of life, violates the autonomy of those who do not share a commitment to that theory.
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