Intolerable and hopeless (meaning without prospect of improvement) suffering is an eligibility criterion for euthanasia/assisted suicide in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Canada. Despite having been used as such a criterion for decades (at least in the Netherlands; shorter periods in other countries), it is still widely debated as to its meaning and applicability as an […]
Author Archives: Scott Kim
I am currently a Senior Investigator in the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health. Prior to coming to the NIH, I was professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan. I am an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor of neurology at the University of Rochester.