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Project

Terminal sedation
Acronym
Terminale sedatie
Code
01J06309
Duration
01 January 2009 → 28 February 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
  • Natural sciences
    • Evolutionary biology
    • General biology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Social medical sciences
Keywords
palliative care terminal sedation end-of-life decisions euthanasia
 
Project description

The frequency of terminal sedation (TS), though morally contested, is increasing. The project studies TS by analysing to the research group accessible databases (SENTIMELC, EURELD and IWT-SBO MELC) by describing and ethically analysing factual justifications for TS-variants (considering informed consent, proportionality, surrogacy, the doctrine of double effect and of killing and letting die, etc.)