Clinical Medicine, 2006 The Royal College of Physicians took a neutral position on the House of Lords Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill. While modern palliative care and the hospice approach have greatly reduced terminal suffering, they do not always achieve total relief of distressing symptoms--he majority of dying patients and their families probably do not receive
Roger A Fisken, Jeffrey Stephenson
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Med Leg J, 2022 Encouraging or assisting suicide, the legal situation, attempts to change the law, the case for and against.
Samuels A.
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Life, death, and ethics: medical and dental students’ attitudes on assisted dying in Austria [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground The Sterbeverfügungsgesetz (StVfG) Austria’s law on assisted dying, came into force on January 1, 2022. Since then, only limited research has examined the attitudes of medical and dental students in Austria toward assisted dying.
Carmen Trost +4 more
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Concepts of mental capacity for patients requesting assisted suicide: a qualitative analysis of expert evidence presented to the Commission on Assisted Dying [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: In May 2013 a new Assisted Dying Bill was tabled in the House of Lords and is currently scheduled for a second reading in May 2014. The Bill was informed by the report of the Commission on Assisted Dying which itself was informed by evidence ...
Annabel Price +3 more
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Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2023 In this Matters Arising article, we outline how the recent article “The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions” (White et al., 2023 Mar 13;24(1):22) informed Voluntary ...
Carmelle Peisah +2 more
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Is there a human right to be assisted in dying? [Temos um direito humano a ser assistido na morte?] [PDF]
Princípios, 2016 This paper will focus on the issue of whether it is plausible to think about a human right to be assisted in dying. The right to be assisted in dying cannot be considered just a right of non-interference.
Milene Tonetto
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THE DE-MEDICALISATION OF ASSISTED DYING: IS A LESS MEDICALISED MODEL THE WAY FORWARD? [PDF]
, 2010 Although assisted dying has been most commonly presented within a medicalised framework, the notion of de-medicalisation is employed in this paper to suggest that there are emerging models of assisted dying in which some medical aspects assumed to be an ...
Suzanne Ost
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Pharmacists’ Attitudes towards Medically Assisted Dying [PDF]
PharmacyAims: We aimed to explore pharmacists’ attitudes and support toward medically assisted dying (MaiD) through the End of Life Choice Act 2019 (EOLC), their willingness to provide services in this area of practice, and the influences on their decisions ...
Lun Shen Wong +5 more
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Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: is medical support ethically justified? [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2017 Background Physician-assisted dying has been the subject of extensive discussion and legislative activity both in Europe and North America. In this context, dying by voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is often proposed, and practiced, as an
Ralf J. Jox +3 more
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Assisted dying: principles, possibilities, and practicalities. An English physician’s perspective [PDF]
BMC Palliative CareIt seems probable that some form of medically-assisted dying will become legal in England and Wales in the foreseeable future. Assisted dying Bills are at various stages of preparation in surrounding jurisdictions (Scotland, Republic of Ireland, Isle of ...
Robert Twycross
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