In debates over medically assisted dying right to die activists are often accused of embracing an unbridled neoliberal individualistic ethics that devalue life and reject notions of community and care. Through an ethnographic study of activists in North America and Australia, this article aims to complicate this point of view by showing how they are deeply invested in what it means to act morally in the world vis‐à‐vis their relationships with others and how they envisage this issue within an ethics of care. Although activists are often accused by opponents of delegitimising the ageing process and relying on atomised individual values, in depth interviews with right to die activists reveal complex, ambiguous and contradictory reflections on the ageing process as a dominant source of suffering while defending an ethics of care and life. In the end, this article argues that the right to die paradoxically constitutes an ethics for living.

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“年老残酷”：作为生活伦理道德而死的权利

在关于医疗辅助死者的死亡权的辩论中，维权人士经常被指责为拥护新生命主义的新自由主义个人主义道德观念，这种道德观念贬低了生活，拒绝了社区和照护的观念。通过对北美和澳大利亚维权人士的人种学研究，本文旨在通过展示他们如何深入投资于在与他人之间的关系上对世界道德行为的意义以及他们如何与他人的关系来使这一观点更加复杂在护理伦理中设想此问题。尽管激进分子经常被反对者指责为使衰老过程合法化，并依赖于个体化的价值观念，但对死去激进分子权利的深入采访显示，衰老过程是痛苦的主要来源，同时捍卫了医护伦理，对此进行了复杂，模棱两可和矛盾的反思。和生活。到底，