Jordan McCullough
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Item type:Publication, The Bioethics of Fiction: Sophie Jomain's <i>Quand la nuit devient jour</i> as Ethical Reflection on Eligibility Criteria for Assisted Dying(2025-12)This article centers on Sophie Jomain's <i>Quand la nuit devient jour</i>, a fictional account of the narrator's experience of accessing euthanasia in Belgium. Using Jomain's text as a model, it argues that fiction offers a valuable means of considering the ethical complexities of providing assisted dying on the basis of psychological and existential suffering, particularly as it reduces the stakes of such ethical reflection. Given the shifting legal and cultural frameworks surrounding the end of life in the francophone world and beyond, the article suggests that bioethical reflection through fiction has much to offer ongoing debates on the future of (medically) assisted dying.Type:journal articleJournal:L'Esprit CréateurVolume:65Issue:4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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, A Practice of Literary Palliation: Philippe Forest's <i>L'Enfant éternel<i>(2024-03)Philippe Forest's first autofictional novel, L'Enfant éternel (The eternal child), centers on the terminal illness and eventual death of the author's daughter, Pauline. While scholarly attention has been directed toward the role of the text in caring for the child, this essay addresses the absence of care for Pauline's parents and their marginalization throughout her end-of-life hospitalization. Focusing on questions of genre, agency, and legacy, I argue that the text allows for a rewriting of the previous, negative experience of care in a way that incorporates the father into care provision. This corrective rewriting understands literature as palliative in its own right, capable of retaining identity, restoring relationships, and facilitating holistic care that "adds life" to all concerned.Type:journal articleJournal:Literature and MedicineVolume:42Issue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Doubly disenfranchised: the experience of paternal grief following medical termination in Jérémie Szpirglas’ <i>Pater dolorosa</i>The term ‘disenfranchised grief’ is increasingly being used to designate grief experiences that are overlooked by wider society. In the French context, this term has overwhelmingly been applied to perinatal loss. Focusing on medical termination (IMG), a somewhat liminal category of perinatal loss, this article considers the <i>doubly</i> disenfranchised experience of <i>paternal</i> grief in such circumstances. While IMG-related grief is, in itself, disenfranchised, not least because it lacks societal recognition, paternal grief following IMG is doubly so, since the male voice is seldom heard. Taking as its focus <i>Pater dolorosa</i> (2019), author and journalist Jérémie Szpirglas’ narrative of medical termination, this article will consider the value of the term ‘disenfranchised grief’ in naming the experience of grief to which Szpirglas’ text attests; the capacity of the text to give voice to that experience and to offer a textual transposition of it; and the role of male grief writing following medical termination in beginning to carve out an alternative space for the sharing of a grief experience that defies established social norms. The article will therefore suggest, in line with Rita Felski’s argument, that ‘a literary text could know as much, or more, than a theory’, particularly when it comes to individual experiences of grief.Type:journal articleJournal:Modern & Contemporary FranceVolume:33Issue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, The Role of Narratives in European Law-Making Processes Surrounding Assisted Dying(2025-05-09)Type:conference paperURL:https://gcel.es/ - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, If “there is nothing holy about agony,” what is the place of religion in contemporary, francophone narratives of assisted dying?(2024-07-02)Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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