Suicide, Assisted
Concepts of mental capacity for patients requesting assisted suicide: a qualitative analysis of expert evidence presented to the Commission on Assisted Dying
... of assisted suicide can have a bearing on individual ideas about mental capacity, particularly the standard required for possession of capacity ...of assisted suicide is a matter for society ...
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A qualitative study on existential suffering and assisted suicide in Switzerland
... After this first contact, we collected data through face-to-face interviews done by the main research at a location chosen by the participant (most of the time at their office). Concise information about the study was ...
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How does legalization of physician assisted suicide affect rates of suicide?
... physician assisted suicide (PAS) on suicide rates is not easy to predict a ...some assisted suicides outside the parameters of the ...with suicide is similar to that reported with ...
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Justifying Assisted Suicide: Comments on the Ongoing Debate
... majority had noted that its holding remained consistent with the ongoing debate over the morality, legality and practicality of phy- sician-assisted suicide; Stevens wrot[r] ...
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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 physician-assisted ...
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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
... and assisted suicide (AS) – taking one’s own life but requiring the help of another person, often a physician, to do so – are among the most ...in suicide from relatives and other lay-persons is ...
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Beyond Theological Conflict in the Courts: The Issue of Assisted Suicide
... For example, the lower court decision of Justice Melvin (which upheld the statute as con- stitutional) presumed from the outset that assisted suicide is "dia- metrically [r] ...
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Survey of doctors' opinions of the legalisation of physician assisted suicide
... The response rate of 50% was disappointing but is supe- rior to similar surveys [20,21]. Efforts we made to boost the response rate included a personalised and individually signed letter, a repeat mailing, and personal ...
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May Christians request medically assisted suicide and euthanasia?
... One can, of course, try to avoid such crude determinism by arguing that belief in the Lordship of God over life and death does not so much imply a denial of the responsibility we indeed have for our own lives and those ...
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Reporting of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands: descriptive study
... In 35% of all cases, physicians reported that at the time of the decision-making about euthanasia there had been (other) possibilities to relieve the patient's suffering that had not been applied. The majority of ...
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A Conversation about Assisted Suicide
... Ultimately, assisted suicide is the doctor’s decision, but we can’t use the autonomy argument to support it, because personal autonomy is not ...legalize assisted suicide, then a lot of ...
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Euthanasia, Suicide and Physician-Assisted Suicide; An Impression
... are suicide, euthanasia, physician assisted suicide and similar ...about suicide, position of suicide in India, and the statistics regarding the rate of suicides reported and the cases ...
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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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Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia
... commit suicide (17, 18). Assisted suicide in Germany is not regarded as a criminal ...physician- assisted suicide are legalized and the others (8) where these two procedures are ...
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The Last Best Place to Die: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Montana's Constitutional Right to Personal Autonomy Privacy
... 1 4 9 Therefore, if the right to phy- sician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients was deemed fundamental, and is consistent with Montana's right to personal a[r] ...
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Physician Assisted Suicide: Whose Life is it Anyway
... Physician Assisted Suicide Whose Life is it Anyway SMU Law Review Volume 47 | Issue 2 Article 8 1994 Physician Assisted Suicide W hose Life is it Anyway Catherine L Bjorck Follow this and additional w[.] ...
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The Court Upholds A State Law Prohibiting Physician Assisted Suicide
... 2 The Court held that state laws prohibiting physicianassisted suicide are constitutionally permissible since they do not violate the Equal Protection Clause.3 In making its decision, th[r] ...
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Physician Assisted Suicide: The Problems Presented by the Compelling, Heartwrenching Case
... Under their proposal, PAS would remain a crime, but the act would not be punishable if the defendant physician proved by clear and convincing evidence that the suicidal patient was a a c[r] ...
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Physician Assisted Suicide: Its Challenge to the Prevailing Constitutional Paradigm
... THE WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON 118 (1968), for the most famous American use of this scriptural phrase.. The crisis was caused by deep and pervas[r] ...
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Historical and Biblical References in Physician-Assisted Suicide Court Opinions
... But this is exactly what Judge Kaufman has done by combining his assertion of the ostensible similarities between the moral history of abortion and suicide with his insis[r] ...
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