Centre METICES, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
School of Social Work and Health Lausanne, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Death Stud. 2022;46(7):1593-1607. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2021.1926635. Epub 2021 Jun 7.
Drawing on two case studies from large-scale fieldwork carried out on euthanasia in Belgium and assisted suicide in Switzerland, this article focuses on the processes of normalization that structure aid in dying. Normalization takes place through a set of apparatuses only partially derived from current legislation, which underlie the relationships that develop between those requesting aid in dying, healthcare staff, volunteers, and loved ones. The resulting arrangements are specific to each national context, but the empirical data also point to broadly common traits, highlighting new paradigmatic forms of aid in dying in the contemporary era.
本文借鉴了在比利时的安乐死和瑞士的协助自杀的大规模实地调查中的两个案例研究，重点关注构成协助死亡的规范化过程。规范化是通过一套不完全源自现行立法的仪器来实现的，这些仪器构成了请求协助死亡的人、医护人员、志愿者和亲人之间发展关系的基础。由此产生的安排因每个国家的情况而异，但实证数据也指出了广泛的共同特征，突出了当代新的协助死亡范式形式。
