Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Euthanasia: a word no longer to be used or abused

  • Correspondence
  • Published:
Intensive Care Medicine Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Michalsen R, Reinhart K (2006) “Euthanasia”: a confusing term, abused under the Nazi regime and misused in present end-of-life debate. Intensive Care Med 32:1304–1310

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Truog R (2006) End-of-life care: Is euthanasia the answer? Intensive Care Med 32:6–8

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Solsona JF, Campos JM, Vazquez A, Diaz Y (2006) Comment on “End-of-life care: Is euthanasia the answer“ by R. Truog. Intensive Care Med 32:1661 and reply by R. Truog 32:1662

    Google Scholar 

  4. Del Nogal Saez F (2006) Opiates at the end of life in an emergency department in Spain: Euthanasia or good clinical practice? Intensive Care Med 32:1086–1087

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Carrol L (1965) Through the looking glass. The annotated Alice. Penguin Books, New York

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Intensive Care, Medical Center Leeuwarden, PO Box 888, 8901 BR, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    Michael A. Kuiper

  2. Department of Intensive Care, Academical Medical Center Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Michael A. Kuiper

  3. Health Care Ethics Center, Duquesne University, PA 15282, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, USA

    Leslie M. Whetstine

  4. Department of Emergency Care, Mater Health Services, Raymond Terrace, South Brisbane Qld 4101, Brisbane, Australia

    John L. Holmes

  5. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Auckland City Hospital, Private Bag 92-024, 1003, Auckland, New Zealand

    Stephen Streat

  6. Department of Anaesthetics, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 719 Umbilo Road, 4013, Durban, South Africa

    Richard C. Burrows

  7. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, The Nepean Hospital, PO Box 63, NSW 2751, Penrith, Australia

    Ian Seppelt

  8. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Presbyterian-University Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 644a Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Ave, PA 15261, Pittsburgh, USA

    David Crippen

Authors
  1. Michael A. Kuiper
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Leslie M. Whetstine
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. John L. Holmes
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Stephen Streat
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Richard C. Burrows
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Ian Seppelt
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. David Crippen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Michael A. Kuiper.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kuiper, M.A., Whetstine, L.M., Holmes, J.L. et al. Euthanasia: a word no longer to be used or abused. Intensive Care Med 33, 549–550 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-006-0489-7

Download citation

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-006-0489-7

Keywords

Search

Navigation