A complete suite of policy briefs, draft legislation, and implementation tools.
A concise, single-page summary of the policy problem, the proposed capacity standard, the four structural commitments, and the contact information for legislative engagement. Designed for rapid briefing.
Download PDFSix professional briefs, each complete in itself and addressed to a specific audience.
The authoritative reference. Develops the full sovereignty model, the two-stage capacity assessment protocol, responses to systematic objections, the structural accountability mechanism, and complete fiscal impact analysis.
Download PDFEstablishes constitutional foundations: the Constitutional Pincer (state monopoly on pharmacological exit), the Informed Refusal Doctrine, and the Bureaucratic Stress Test for capacity assessment.
Written for elected officials. Presents the policy problem in plain language, the proposed capacity standard, jurisdictional reviews, procedural safeguards, and fiscal/political framing.
Download PDFAddresses the strongest protectionist arguments in their most rigorous form, proposing the structural accountability mechanism as genuine common ground between reform and protection.
Download PDFDevelops the full philosophical argument with citation apparatus: the deficiencies of the protectionist model, the sovereignty model, and systematic responses to philosophical objections.
Download PDFAddresses the clinical incoherence of suffering-based criteria, the capacity assessment protocol from a clinical standpoint, and liability considerations under the proposed framework.
Download PDFDraft statutory language and practical reporting tools for immediate legislative consideration.
Ready-to-draft statutory language implementing the capacity standard, the two-stage assessment protocol, and the structural accountability mechanism. Includes versions tailored to US and Canadian legal structures.
The mandatory reporting form required under the structural accountability mechanism. Designed to capture the socioeconomic drivers — housing, finance, care access — for political accountability.
A personal essay providing the autobiographical foundation for the policy arguments. Proceeds from the author's psychiatric history to a political position on bodily sovereignty. Best read after the policy documents.
Download PDFPrimary sources and legal precedents informing the framework.
Each document in this packet may be cited individually by its full title and author. For the packet as a whole:
Bogner, Justin. Autonomy, Capacity, and the Right to Exit: A Policy Packet on Capacity-Based Medical Aid in Dying. 2026.
Academic and policy use of these documents is permitted with attribution. Please cite the specific document (e.g., Legislative Brief, Academic Paper) rather than the packet as a whole when referencing arguments specific to one audience document.