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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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“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
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Assisted dying survey [PDF]

British Journal of General Practice, 2020
It is extraordinary that the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has chosen to continue to oppose a change in the law to enable assisted dying when the majority (51%) …
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The Compassionate State? ‘Voluntary Assisted Dying’, Neoliberalism, and a Virtue Without an Anchor [PDF]

, 2023
This article does not focus on the ethical issues surrounding the newly legal interventions that the Act legalises, referred to by the Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics as ‘physician assisted suicide’ and ‘euthanasia’.4 Commentaries that analyse the ethics
Fleming, D
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Who Is Eligible for Voluntary Assisted Dying? Nine Medical Conditions Assessed Against Five Legal Frameworks

, 2022
Eligibility criteria in voluntary assisted dying legislation determine access to assistance to die. This article undertakes the practical exercise of analyzing whether each of the following nine medical conditions can provide an individual with access to
Hewitt, Jayne, Del Villar, K, Greaves, LL, Close, E, Meehan, Rebecca, Hewitt, J, Cameron, J, Ley Greaves, Laura, Cameron, James, White, BP, Del Villar, Katrine, Willmott, Lindy, Downie, Jocelyn, White, Ben P., Meehan, R, Downie, J, Willmott, L, Close, Eliana   +17 more
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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
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Voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: Why knowing the law matters to nurses

, 2020
In 2017, Victoria became the first state in Australia to pass legislation permitting voluntary assisted dying. Under this law, only those people who are near the end of their lives may access voluntary assisted dying, and because many of these people ...
Hewitt, Jayne, Greaves, Laura Ley, Meehan, Rebecca, White, Ben, Del Villar, Katrine, Willmott, Lindy   +5 more
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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
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Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement

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, Adrianna Sheppard, Kelvin CY Leung   +2 more
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Characteristics of Older Adults Accessing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD): a Descriptive Study

Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 2021
Background  Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) is an end-of-life option for Canadians accounting for 2% of all deaths in Canada in 2019. Adults over 80 years old represent a significant proportion of these deaths, yet little is known about how they ...
Debbie Selby, Brandon Chan, Amy Nolen
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