RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 End-of-Life Decision-Making: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide under Debate in Jojo Moyes' and Thea Sharrock's ME AFTER YOU
A1 Garrido Hornos, María del Carmen
K1 Euthanasia, literature, cinema, disability; sexuality, self-determination
AB At  a  certain  stage  in  our  existence,  death  will  inevitably  come  to  us  all.  Euthanasia  and  assisted suicide raise issues and pose questions that cannot be answered from the perspective of medicine alone. Disciplines such as bioethics, philosophy, and even literature and cinema also offer compelling frameworks from which to address such a complex phenomenon. The present  paper  explores  the  notions  of  euthanasia  and  assisted  suicide  through  the  lens  of  a  contemporary British novel and its cinematic adaptation: Jojo Moyes’ Me Before You (2012), which  was  brought  to  the  big  screen  by  Thea  Sharrock  and  released  four  years  later  in  the  UK.  As  has  occurred  with  other  writings  and  films  that  will  be  referenced,  the  novel  and  its adaptation provoked opposing reactions—many of them controversial. Is death a private choice in which no one but ourselves should interfere?
SN 1848-7874
YR 2025
FD 2025-08-18
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/78136
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/78136
LA eng
NO JAHR: European Journal of Bioethics, Agosto 2025, vol. 16, n. 1, pp. 47-64
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 03-oct-2025