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Concepts and definitions: A source of confusion in the euthanasia debate Concepts and definitions: A source of confusion in the euthanasia debate Dr Paulina Taboada Profesor Centro de Bioetica Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Alameda 340 Correo Central 1 Santiago, Chile My comments on the empirical data on euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions in The Netherlands recently published by The Lancet (Cf. Onwuteaka-Phillipsen, B. et al.: Euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions in the Netherlands in 1990, 1995, and 2001, The Lancet, published online June 17, 2003: http://www.thelancet.com/) lead me – among other things – to question whether it is conceptually adequate to define euthanasia as "the administration of drugs with the explicit intention of ending the patient’s life on his or her explicit request" as the authors of the article do. Full Article: http://www.hospicecare.com/Ethics/monthlypiece/eithics2003/pom_aug03.htm


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