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This article analyses the peculiarity of the assisted dying’s model in Switzerland. It postulates that the collectivity does not accept the act of suicide in itself; it rather accepts the fact of providing assistance for a death that is up to this day formally categorized as a “violent death”. Consequently, the framing of assisted dying and its implementation can be construed as a “pattern for misconduct”, which opens an original and pragmatic angle to understand one of the social issues in relation with the contemporary ways to end one’s life.

Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: the Advent of a “Pattern for Misconduct”

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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This article analyses the peculiarity of the assisted dying’s model in Switzerland. It postulates that the collectivity does not accept the act of suicide in...

Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: the Advent of a “Pattern for Misconduct”

Publié en ligne: 23 nov. 2021

Pages: 537 - 554

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0001

Mots clés
Assisted dying, Switzerland, collectivity, acceptability criteria, pattern for misconduct

© 2021 Marc-Antoine Berthod et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: the Advent of a “Pattern for Misconduct”

Publié en ligne: 23 nov. 2021

Pages: 537 - 554

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0001

Mots clésAssisted dying, Switzerland, collectivity, acceptability criteria, pattern for misconduct

© 2021 Marc-Antoine Berthod et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Assisted dying, Switzerland, collectivity, acceptability criteria, pattern for misconduct