Vanessa Rampton
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Item type:Publication, Language Matters: The Semantics and Politics of “Assisted Dying”(Wiley, 2024-11-02); ; ; This essay examines the impact of linguistic choices on the perception and regulation of assisted dying, particularly in Canada. It argues that euphemistic terms like “medical assistance in dying” and its acronym, “MAID,” serve to normalize the practice, potentially obscuring its moral gravity. This contrasts with what is seen in Belgium and the Netherlands, where terms like “euthanasia” are used, as well as in France and the United Kingdom, where terminology remains divisive and contested. By tracing the evolution of these terms and what they reveal about different cultural and legal approaches, this essay sheds light on the politics of language in end-of-life discourses. It suggests that the shift toward euphemistic language reflects a broader discomfort with death that can shape public attitudes and legal frameworks. It calls for a more transparent, philosophically grounded approach to terminology and suggests that continued debate about semantics is necessary to capture the complexities and ethical significance of assisted dying.Type:journal articleJournal:Hastings Center ReportVolume:54Issue:5Scopus© Citations 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, “Accompanied Only by My Thoughts”: A Kantian Perspective on Autonomy at the End of LifeType:journal articleJournal:The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of MedicineVolume:47Issue:6Scopus© Citations 10 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Existential Suffering in the History of Assisted Dying Debates(2025-04-09)Issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia are not new, and debates around those issues have a long and relatively well-known history in western Europe and north America. From Plato, Socrates, and the Stoics, to name a few early examples, to Thomas More, Francis Bacon, and Kant, and more recently Jean Paul Sartre, Frances Kamm, and Mary Warnock, there is a long tradition of philosophical thought on these topics. This contribution considers this history with two main aims. First, it reflects on the instances in which a form of existential suffering figures in the intellectual history of justifications for assisted dying. It argues that some of the definitional vagaries and inconsistencies of contemporary understandings of existential suffering are reflected in the diversity of its historical manifestations. Second, it considers the gender dimension of this question. While women often ‘suffer existentially’ or experience existential distress, women and their concerns are poorly represented in the intellectual history of assisted dying generally and of existential suffering as its justification in particular. This paper therefore seeks to offer a historically informed perspective on the gender dimension of existential suffering.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Œuvres culturelles & l’élargissement de l’aide médicale à mourir(2025-05-08)Dans l'ère numérique, le pouvoir d'influence des productions culturelles sur les processus législatifs ne fait que croître. D'une part, les citoyens se tournent de plus en plus vers des formes filmiques, littéraires, et artistiques pour transmettre leurs réalités complexes, parfois tragiques, aux législateurs. D'autre part, les références à ces œuvres sont devenues partie intégrale des débats publiques et législatifs. Cette interaction entre la culture et les processus publiques est visible à différents moments de la trajectoire de l’assistance médicale à mourir (l’AMM) au Canada et ailleurs. Alors que les exemples les plus connus plaident en faveur de la légalisation de l'AMM (Les invasions barbares (Québec, 2003), Manon : Le dernier droit (Québec, 2004), Mar adentro (Espagne, 2004), Le tout dernier été (France, 2017)), une nouvelle vague d’activisme culturelle se montre critique à l’égard de l’AMM et de son élargissement. Cette présentation se concentrera sur les productions artistiques canadiennes critiques de l’élargissement de l’AMM, mais montrera comment des ressources d’autres pays (Better off Dead ? (Grande Bretagne, 2024), Intouchables (France, 2011), et EXIT (Suisse, 2002)), peuvent être d’intérêt pour le Québec. Cet exposé brossera un tableau complexe de l’activisme culturelle et les droits en fin de vie. Ce faisant j’offre des réflexions plus larges sur le rôle de la culture activiste pour occasionner des changements et protéger contre des dérives législatives.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, End-of-Life Stories Matter(2024-10-18); ; ; Session Description Assisted dying has been legal in Québec since 2015, in Canada since 2016, and its provision is bound up with contemporaneous understandings of the role and remit of palliative care. Led by four members of Assisted Lab – an academic, nonpartisan research lab concerned with patient stories of assisted dying – this interactive workshop will explore in detail the relationship between palliative care and assisted dying. With a focus on stories told by patients in blogs, films, and audio recordings, this workshop aims to clarify the synergies and tensions between palliative care and assisted dying provision in Canada. It will therefore begin with short presentations discussing international variants of this relationship, including in Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. The second part of the workshop will consist of discussions, in breakout groups, of fragments of patient stories that deal with the assisted dying-palliative care relationship in Canada and abroad. Each group will be led by a member of Assisted Lab (the ideal participant size is therefore 20 people). The workshop will conclude with each group presenting potentially generalizable principles contained in their respective patient story, and a general discussion of these principles. With a view to maximizing audience participation and debate, the final part of the workshop will seek out the responses of palliative care and other actors to the patient stories. Session Learning Objectives Sharpen narrative analysis skills to better understand the relationship between palliative care and assisted dying in Canada and in Québec Gain an understanding of different cultural models of that relationship, as well as the concrete historical circumstances and personalities that shaped it in different national contexts Develop communication skills related to discussing merits and drawbacks of medical assistance in dying with people who hold different opinionsType:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, End-of-Life Stories Matter(2024-10-18); ; ; Session Description Assisted dying has been legal in Québec since 2015, in Canada since 2016, and its provision is bound up with contemporaneous understandings of the role and remit of palliative care. Led by four members of Assisted Lab – an academic, nonpartisan research lab concerned with patient stories of assisted dying – this interactive workshop will explore in detail the relationship between palliative care and assisted dying. With a focus on stories told by patients in blogs, films, and audio recordings, this workshop aims to clarify the synergies and tensions between palliative care and assisted dying provision in Canada. It will therefore begin with short presentations discussing international variants of this relationship, including in Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. The second part of the workshop will consist of discussions, in breakout groups, of fragments of patient stories that deal with the assisted dying-palliative care relationship in Canada and abroad. Each group will be led by a member of Assisted Lab (the ideal participant size is therefore 20 people). The workshop will conclude with each group presenting potentially generalizable principles contained in their respective patient story, and a general discussion of these principles. With a view to maximizing audience participation and debate, the final part of the workshop will seek out the responses of palliative care and other actors to the patient stories. Session Learning Objectives Sharpen narrative analysis skills to better understand the relationship between palliative care and assisted dying in Canada and in Québec Gain an understanding of different cultural models of that relationship, as well as the concrete historical circumstances and personalities that shaped it in different national contexts Develop communication skills related to discussing merits and drawbacks of medical assistance in dying with people who hold different opinionsType:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, This is Cancer in the End, presentation within End of Life Stories Matter Workshop(2024)Assisted dying has been legal in Québec since 2015, in Canada since 2016, and its provision is bound up with contemporaneous understandings of the role and remit of palliative care. Led by four members of Assisted Lab – an academic, nonpartisan research lab concerned with patient stories of assisted dying – this interactive workshop will explore in detail the relationship between palliative care and assisted dying.Type:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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