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Euthanasia: Current Problems in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Kazumasa Hoshino
Kazumasa Hoshino
Affiliation:
Executive Director of the Liaison Society for Ethics Committees of Medical Schools in Japan; President of the Japan Association of Bioethics; and Director of the International Bioethics Research Center, Institute of Religion and Culture, Kyoto Women's University
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Approximately 30 years ago, a son prepared a cup of milk mixed with insecticide and arranged for his mother to unknowingly administer the poison to his father, who had been suffering severe pain after a cerebral apoplectic attack and demanding that his son assist him. in dying. After drinking the mixture, the father died, and the son was charged with homicide.

Type
Special Section: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Murder or Mercy?
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Winter 1993 , pp. 45 - 47
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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