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Palliative care‐based arguments against assisted dying [PDF]

open access: yesBioethics
Opponents of legalised assisted dying often assert that palliative care is worse in countries where assisted dying has been legalised, and imply that legalised assisted dying makes palliative care worse.
Ben Colburn
exaly   +2 more sources

Pharmacists and assisted dying

BMJ, 2020
The UN General Assembly has emphasised that the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief applies equally to all people, regardless of their religion or belief and without any discrimination regarding their equal protection by the law.1 This right applies equally to all professional groups, including …
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Physician-Assisted Dying

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 2010
Two recent articles have again piqued our interest in the subject of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. As noted by Chambaere et al, Belgium and the Netherlands in 2002, and Luxemburg in 2009, have decriminalized physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. The issue is currently being debated in Canada.
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“How to navigate this new area”: Intensive care clinicians’ perceptions of voluntary assisted dying in the intensive care unit: A multisite exploratory study

open access: yesAustralian Critical Care
Background There is growing momentum worldwide for assisted dying. In Australia, voluntary assisted dying may occur in any setting, including an intensive care unit (ICU).
Melissa J Bloomer   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Assisted Dying in Canada

HealthcarePapers, 2014
This paper makes an affirmative ethical case in favour of the decriminalization of assisted dying in Canada. It then proceeds to defending the affirmative case against various slippery-slope arguments that are typically deployed by opponents of assisted dying.
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Assistance In Dying

2023
Abstract This chapter explores how the majority of people would like to have some control over the time and manner of their deaths should they find themselves in a condition so hopeless that there is no point in going on. In most of the world, the legally permissible forms of controlling death do not include voluntary euthanasia or ...
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Assisted dying versus assisted living

BMJ, 2011
Tallis states that it is a fundamental principle of medicine “that you should be allowed to determine what is in your own best interest when you are of sound mind.”1 This is the consumerist view and not fundamental. The fundamental principles …
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Assisted dying

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2016
Sophie, Brannan   +5 more
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