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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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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Do religious justifications distort policy debates? Some empirics on the case for public reason [PDF]
, 2020 Scholars engaged in debates about the use of public reason often view religious arguments as being out of bounds. Yet the real-world impact of religious discourse remains under-explored.
Djupe, Paul A., Kettell, Steven
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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 +4 more
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, 2021 This book explores current human rights controversies arising in UK law, in the light of the way such matters have been dealt with in Canada.
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A role for doctors in assisted dying? An analysis of legal regulations and medical professional positions in six European countries [PDF]
, 2008 An extensive debate about assisted suicide and euthanasia has been taking place in westernized countries during the last twenty years. Traditionally, the medical profession has maintained a clear distance from euthanasia and assisted suicide, but this ...
Bosshard, G. +5 more
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Nursing and euthanasia : a narrative review of the nursing ethics literature [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Medical Assistance in Dying, also known as euthanasia or assisted suicide, is expanding internationally. Canada is the first country to permit Nurse Practitioners to provide euthanasia.
Burgess, Michael +7 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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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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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for patients with depression. Thought-provoking remarks [PDF]
, 2020 Euthanasia and medical assistance in dying entail daunting ethical and moral challenges, in addition to a host of medical and clinical issues, which are further complicated in cases of patients whose decision-making skills have been negatively affected ...
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