Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Euthanasia and assisted suicide: a physician’s and ethicist’s perspectives
... legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide has a broad range of participants including physicians, scholars in ethics and health law, politicians, and the general ...legalizing euthanasia and ...
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Euthanasia and assisted suicide for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorder: an examination of nine relevant euthanasia cases in the Netherlands (2012–2016)
... The 2001 Act requires the RTE to issue annual reports describing their findings. These annual reports are avail- able on the RTE website (including English, French and German translations from 2010), along with further ...
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The politics of euthanasia and assisted suicide: A comparative case study of emerging criminal law and the criminal trials of Jack 'Dr Death' Kevorkian
... In a sense, this presented a colorable" issue of causation, or more accurately lack of causation (lack of sufficient evidence of the cause of death, an element of the crime). This line of colorable causation (or the ...
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Euthanasia, Suicide and Physician-Assisted Suicide; An Impression
... are suicide, euthanasia, physician assisted suicide and similar ...the euthanasia, its guidelines, related cases that the Court has witnessed, and the legal position of it as of ...
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May Christians request medically assisted suicide and euthanasia?
... Part of the critical response of postmodern philosophers and theologians to Enlightenment ethics relates to the one-sided emphasis on actions and the principles and norms that guide actions. This same one-sided emphasis ...
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Reporting of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands: descriptive study
... about euthanasia there had been (other) possibilities to relieve the patient's suffering that had not been ...The Euthanasia Act states that there should be no 'reasonable' alternative available to relieve ...
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Palliative care professionals’ willingness to perform euthanasia or physician assisted suicide
... of euthanasia or ...perform euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (PAS) if asked to do so by their ...of euthanasia or PAS was not ...
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An Ethical Review of Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide
... The data for the current analysis have been de- rived from the broader research project whose aim was to identify occurrence, distribution, and opinions of the physicians about euthanasia and ...
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Attitudes towards assisted suicide and euthanasia among care-dependent older adults (50+) in Austria: the role of socio-demographics, religiosity, physical illness, psychological distress, and social isolation
... decisions, euthanasia (EUT) – the voluntary, patient-requested and deliberate ending of life by a physician administering a lethal substance – and assisted suicide (AS) – taking one’s own life but ...
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The involvement of family in the Dutch practice of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: a systematic mixed studies review
... This review raises the question how important family-related reasons are for Dutch patients who con- sider requesting euthanasia or assisted suicide, and how this should be studied. A relationship ...
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Permitting Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Law Reform Pathways for Common Law Jurisdictions
... on assisted death violated their Charter rights – their section 15 equality rights and their section 7 right not to be deprived of life, liberty, and security of the person except in accordance with the principles ...
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Physician Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia: Some Relevant Differences
... Of course, the circumstances of physician-assisted suicide may still contain some constant factor that creates or increases the risk of an unfreely chosen suicide, but it is hard to see [r] ...
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Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in patients suffering from psychiatric disorders: a cross sectional study exploring the experiences of Dutch psychiatrists
... Overall, there were no substantial differences between characteristics of patients whose EAS request was refused and those whose request was granted in 2016. Though the limited number of granted cases calls for prudence, ...
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Disability, vulnerability and assisted death: commentary on Tuffrey-Wijne, Curfs, Finlay and Hollins
... Concerns regarding the risk that EAS may pose to dis- abled persons are long standing. The ‘Not Dead Yet’ [8] movement is perhaps the most widely known opponent of EAS by disabled persons. They are however not alone in ...
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Survey of doctors' opinions of the legalisation of physician assisted suicide
... physician assisted suicide ...of assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, but only their opinions on the legalisation of active voluntary euthanasia were ...
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A Legislation Review: Bill C-14 “Euthanasia or Assisted Dying”
... On June 16, 2016, the House of Commons and Senators passed a historic bill from the Liberal government: Bill C-14, the first doctor-assisted suicide legislation. This new bill placed restrictive ...
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A Conversation about Assisted Suicide
... Dr. Lang: I think that the sanctity of life is very important, yet I believe that life is not valuable after a certain point. When a patient is in a tremendous amount of pain, and wants his life to end, he no longer has ...
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End of lifeExpert care and support, not physician‐hastened death
... on euthanasia in the late 1980s, in which a US gy- necology resident killed a young woman he had met for the first time only a few minutes before while on rounds that ...for assisted suicide, with 110 ...
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Engaging with patients who desire death: Interpretation, presence, and constraint
... in assisted death, as described at the outset of this paper, somewhat misses the point concerning nurses’ involvement in the care processes associated with assisted ...and assisted death shows that ...
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Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia
... between assisted suicide and physi- cian-assisted suicide in order to further qualify the aid in committing a suicide (4), whereby both procedures are related to the deprivation of life ...
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