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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 The principle of equivalence of care states that prisoners must have access to the same standard of health care as the general population. If, as recent court decisions suggest, assisted dying is not limited to people with a terminal physical illness or ...
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Deromanticizing medical assistance in dying [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2021 In response to Dr. Ashe’s article on providing his 100th case of medical assistance in dying (MAiD),[1][1] we wish to counter with our concerns about his romantic view of MAiD and its potential impact, his underestimation of the frequency of MAiD and his assertion that MAiD is an act of mercy ...
Romayne Gallagher, Michael J. Passmore
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"Ending death, not ending life": Understanding Positive Attitudes toward Assisted Dying in the UK [PDF]
, 2023 Over 200 million people worldwide have access to a form of assisted dying, with the number of countries legalising assisted dying growing. Yet, in the UK, assisted dying is not available and those that help a loved one to die are at risk of prosecution ...
Mallion, J. +3 more
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BMC Palliative Care, 2022 Background There is a lack of research to guide the implementation of voluntary assisted dying legislation within a hospice setting. Furthermore, there is limited published information related to the expectations of the community and staff to assist ...
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Palliative Care and Social Practice, 2021 Background: More than a dozen countries have now legalized some form of assisted dying, and additional jurisdictions are considering similar legislations or expanding eligibility criteria.
Anita Ho +5 more
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Frozen Bodies and Future Imaginaries: Assisted Dying, Cryonics, and a Good Death
Religions, 2020 In October of 2018, Norman Hardy became the first individual to be cryopreserved after successful recourse to California’s then recently passed End of Life Options Act. This was a right not afforded to Thomas Donaldson, who in 1993 was legally denied the
Jeremy Cohen
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Perspectives on assisted dying [PDF]
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2010 There is no shortage of collections or individual papers onassisted dying and other end-of-life issues. They have beena regular feature of ethical evaluation and debate for manyyears. The fact that such papers continue to be published istestimony not only to a continuing awareness of profes-sional and lay concerns, but also to changing circum-stances ...
Fuat Oduncu, David Badcott
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The effectiveness of legal safeguards in jurisdictions that allow assisted dying [PDF]
, 2012 Evidence from jurisdictions that allow assisted dying is frequently used in the debate about assisted dying in the UK, since it provides important information about how assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia work in practice.
Black, Isra, Lewis, Penney
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BMC Palliative Care, 2022 Background There is limited literature around how palliative care organizations determine the degree to which they will interface with voluntary assisted dying in jurisdictions where it is legal. The aim of this research was to describe the experience of
Kirsten Auret +3 more
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Frihet fra lidelse, individuell selvbestemmelsesrett og døden som kunstverk: Antegnelser til en antropologisk undersøkelse av assistert død = Freedom from suffering, individual autonomy, and dying as a work of art: notes towards an anthropology of assisted dying [PDF]
, 2017 Over the last century, death in western societies has undergone a process of medicalization. Critics claim that this has rendered death unnatural and devoid of meaning.
Koksvik, Gitte
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