Cicely Saunders
Extract
The ethical principles of care have to balance patient autonomy or control with the justice owed to society as a whole. Our choices do not take place in a purely individual setting and the change in society’s attitude when a hastened death is available is illustrated by the changes that are taking place in the Netherlands.
Saunders C. In Britain Fewer Conflicts of Conscience. Hast Cent Rep. 1995 May-Jun;25(3):44-45.