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Palliative Care and Assisted Dying Laws [PDF]

Proposals are being developed in Scotland, the Isle of Man and Jersey to allow assisted dying for people who are terminally ill, if they request it. Some people oppose legalization because of fears about the effects that assisted dying laws might have on
Gill, Michael, Cholbi, Michael, Colburn, Ben, Pettigrove, Glen, Millum, Joseph   +4 more
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Assisted dying in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand: Lessons for Scotland [PDF]

, 2023
Assisted dying is now legal in many parts of the world, including in several US states, Colombia, Switzerland, Spain, and the Benelux countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands).
Gill, Michael, Cholbi, Michael, Colburn, Ben, Pettigrove, Glen, Millum, Joseph   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Voluntary Assisted Dying: Law? Health? Justice? [PDF]

, 2022
Since the introduction of voluntary assisted dying in 2019, a 'new moment' in the governance of life and death has opened up within the Australian context.
Crofts, P
core   +1 more source

Survey of doctors' opinions of the legalisation of physician assisted suicide

BMC Medical Ethics, 2009
Background Assisted dying has wide support among the general population but there is evidence that those providing care for the dying may be less supportive. Senior doctors would be involved in implementing the proposed change in the law.
Rayner Lauren, Price Annabel, Lee William, Hotopf Matthew   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

“Respecting our patients’ choices”: making the organizational decision to participate in voluntary assisted dying provision: findings from semi-structured interviews with a rural community hospice board of management

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, Terri J. Pikora, Kate Gersbach, Robert J. Donovan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

When the cause of death does not exist: time for the WHO to close the ICD classification gap for Medical Aid in Dying

EClinicalMedicine, 2023
Summary: Medical aid in dying (MAID) is a highly controversial ethical issue in the global medical community. Unfortunately, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) of the World Health Organization (WHO) lacks coding for MAID.
Uwe Güth, Rolf Weitkunat, Shaun McMillan, Andres R. Schneeberger, Edouard Battegay   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Attitudes Toward Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide Among Norwegian Palliative Care Physicians

Palliative Medicine Reports
Background: Data from other countries have indicated that palliative care physicians are more opposed to assisted dying compared with other physicians.
Olav Magnus Fredheim, Eva Gravdahl, Ingeborg Skulberg, Morten Magelssen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Too much safety? Safeguards and equal access in the context of voluntary assisted dying legislation

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background In June 2019, the Australian state of Victoria joined the growing number of jurisdictions around the world to have legalised some form of voluntary assisted dying.
Rosalind McDougall, Bridget Pratt
doaj   +1 more source

Assisted dying in Canada [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2013
I wish to respond to a letter written by Johnston[1][1] that appeared in the Dec. 11, 2012, issue of CMAJ . In his letter, Johnston provides a false portrait of medically assisted dying.
openaire   +2 more sources