The Debreather and NuTech
A Reply to Kleespies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14809353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rüssel D Ogden (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 325-329 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Death Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0748-1187 • E-ISSN: 1091-7683 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07481181003613875 |
| PMID | 24479190 |
| OpenAlex | W2052959133 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article responds to Phillip Kleespies's (2010/this issue Kleespies , P. M. ( 2010/this issue ). Psychological and ethical considerations concerning the debreather and assisted suicide: A commentary on Ogden . Death Studies , 34 , 318 – 324 .[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) commentary on NuTech fieldworkers and their use of the debreather. Non-medical assistance with suicide raises legitimate concerns about accountability, public safety, and care for those who are suffering. Given that suicide is not a crime, an outcome of the NuTech movement may be that suicide techniques will become refined to a point where covert assistance is unnecessary. Assuming that the internal social controls of NuTech fieldworkers will permit greater transparency, it is foreseeable that fieldworkers will eventually report suicides to the authorities, similar to the Swiss model for assisted suicide
Accountability · Assisted suicide · Covert · Criminology · Political science · Psychiatry · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |