a School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies , University of Ottawa , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
Death Stud. 2018 May-Jun;42(5):329-335. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2017.1396646. Epub 2018 Feb 20.
The right to die is an issue is predicated on larger cultural understandings of autonomy. Autonomy, in turn, is centered around assumptions of choice, that individuals are able to make health-related decisions based on a rational calculation. In such a way, a medically assisted death is differentiated from suicide. Through an ethnographic study of right-to-die activists in North America and Australia and how they understand ideals of "good deaths," this article will complicate this view by examining the ethical subject constructed by such activism that reveals autonomy to be a useful guiding fiction that mask larger ethical relationships.
死亡权利是一个基于对自主性的更大文化理解的问题。自主性反过来又以选择的假设为中心，即个人能够基于理性计算做出与健康相关的决策。通过这种方式，医疗协助死亡与自杀有所区别。本文通过对北美和澳大利亚的死亡权利活动家的民族志研究，以及他们如何理解“美好死亡”的理想，通过考察这种激进主义所构建的伦理主体，揭示自主性是一个有用的指导虚构，掩盖了更大的伦理关系，从而使这种观点变得复杂。
