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AN
ORGANIZED CATALOG OF PROPOSED SAFEGUARDS
This 'room' offers about 35 proposed safeguards
for making medical decisions that will result in the patient being
dead.
Since the
following list of safeguards might seem overwhelming,
we should remind ourselves that only some of these proposed
safeguards
will be required by
any law that includes safeguards.
And if a law merely suggests
possible safeguards,
this will allow the people who are planning a voluntary
death
or a
merciful
death
to choose the most appropriate safeguards for their specific
end-of-life situation.
Also, some safeguards would be incompatible with others on this list.
Thus, even in the use of safeguards, choices must be made.
Which of the following proposed safeguard-procedures
would create the greatest
benefits while imposing the lightest burdens?
Such a selection has already been made by the author
of this summary:
The 26 recommended safeguards are listed here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/SG-A-Z.html
Some of these safeguards were originally published
in a small book called Ten Safeguards for
Life-Ending Decisions, 1995.
These safeguards have been modified and expanded ever since.
The 26 recommended safeguards form the core of a new book
called How
to Die: Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions.
Additional safeguards may be suggested by anyone in the world.
All safeguards are open to re-formulation.
Suggestions for improvements are welcome.
Even the name of each safeguard might be improved.
What benefits will be
assured by this safeguard?
What new problems
will be created by this safeguard?
Most laws and proposed laws do not explain their safeguards.
Rather they depend on brief definitions and short phrases. Thus, these extended
explanations of the safeguards might become parts of the
debates about safeguards for life-ending
decisions.
As a beginning, here is a listing of some existing laws and proposed
laws
with links to the safeguards they use: https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/SG-LAWS.html
And where safeguards are already applied,
we will benefit from reports of how well (or how poorly)
each specific safeguard has worked in practice.
As the decades unfold, articles will be written
about the use of safeguards for life-ending decisions.
Examples of such articles might be:
What safeguards did Jack Kevorkian use?
The best ways to incorporate safeguards into state and national laws.
How would particular safeguards have changed
famous cases concerning the
right-to-die?
SAFEGUARDS TO BE FULFILLED BY
PHYSICIANS
AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANTS
This is a collection
of the objections and challenges raised
by opponents of the right-to-die. Each
worry about mistakes and abuses is
linked to those specific safeguards
above,
which would best prevent
those dangers and avoid
those perils.
links for lawmakers
A
Facebook Group has been established for Right-to-Die
Legislators. When
any
member of a law-making body anywhere on Earth
has created a proposal for a new health-care law or regulation
that permits more choices at the end of life,
a link can be offered to this Facebook Group.
26
recommended
safeguards for life-ending decisions.
Lawmakers could include at least the best of these safeguards
in any new end-of-life legislation.
Each safeguards is explained in a page or two on the Internet.
Go to the list of 26
recommended
safeguards.
These are selected from the above list of 35 possible safeguards.