L’assistance à mourir par-delà les frontières : l’influence de la circulation transnationale des personnes, des termes et des thèmes sur la construction d’un problème public

Abstract

Assistance in dying has become a transnational issue debated and lawfully practiced in several jurisdictions around the world. This article focuses on persons, terms and themes that circulate from one context authorizing assistance in dying to another. Building on Gusfield’s concepts of judgment, ownership and responsibility, we explore how national debates on assistance in dying draw on transnational circulations which are instrumental in the construction of this issue as a public problem. Adopting a transnational lens shows that local public problems of assistance in dying should not be apprehended in isolation nor compared as independent contexts.

Keywords

• assistance in dying
• assisted suicide
• euthanasia
• transnational circulation
• public problem