ABSTRACT
This chapter describes that ethical and legal justification may be found within aspects of palliative care, the clinician's obligation of beneficence and many spiritual practices. It suggests that the debate over how far it might be seen as ethically and legally permissible to request hastened death as part of medical treatment has artificially restricted perceived possibilities. The chapter also describes that developments in neuroscience demonstrate the potential to enhance choice in dying through the option of enhancing the dying process. It focuses on the potential of psychedelics to enhance one's dying through enhancing their ability to find meaning in their lives. The chapter considers the legal and ethical factors associated with end-of-life research upon human subjects, describing that this may be justified within appropriate safeguards. It explores the potential of neuroscience to ameliorate some of the difficulties associated with such endeavours as a preliminary to demonstrating how enhanced choice in the experience of dying might be afforded.
