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Sophocles’ Antigone and the complexities of suicide
Grant GillettRobin HankeyOtago, New Zealand Suicide has been a recurring human tragedy for as long as human affairs have been recorded. The principal suicide in Antigone does not at first pass seem relevant to the twentieth century, as it arises in the context of a judicial death penalty in a despotic state. Antigone’s suicide, however,…
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Where is the dignity in death?
Therese KwiatkowskiChicago, Illinois, USA In my experience, the end of life is neither peaceful nor dignified. I wish I had been told that death is hard work for both the patient and the loved one. I did not expect that losing my mother would be easy. I had read books about impending death and had asked…
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The good death
Raeford E Brown, JrLexington, Kentucky, USA Physicians and nurses experience death all too often. We recognize the gray hue, the fetid odor, and chill of a body that has been failing for days or months. In hospital halls, we hurriedly pass families as they struggle to deal with the loss of their loved ones. In…
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Suffocating in the bell jar: The euthanasia request by the unbearably suffering, depressed patient
Barend FlorijnAd KapteinThe Netherlands Introduction The Dutch Euthanasia Act took effect in the Netherlands in 2002. Since then the official euthanasia number of patients with a mental disorder has risen from 13 in 2011 to 42 patients in 2013.1 This Act regulates the ending of one’s life by a physician at the request of an unbearably…