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Medical Assistance in Dying: Challenges of Monitoring the Canadian Program

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2020
The Canadian medical assistance in dying (MAID) program, based on an ambitious piece of legislation and detailed regulations, has failed to provide Canadians with sufficient publicly accessible evidence to show that it is operating as mandated by the ...
Jaro Kotalik
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A qualitative study of experiences of institutional objection to medical assistance in dying in Canada: ongoing challenges and catalysts for change

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2023
Background In June 2016, Canada legalized medical assistance in dying (MAiD). From the outset, some healthcare institutions (including faith-based and non-faith-based hospitals, hospices, and residential aged care facilities) have refused to allow ...
Eliana Close   +4 more
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“I haven’t had to bare my soul but now I kind of have to”: describing how voluntary assisted dying conscientious objectors anticipated approaching conversations with patients in Victoria, Australia

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Dealing with end of life is challenging for patients and health professionals alike. The situation becomes even more challenging when a patient requests a legally permitted medical service that a health professional is unable to provide due to a conflict
C. Haining, L. Keogh
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Assisted Dying as Intimate Care

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
How does asking loved ones to help you die, to help you commit suicide, bend the limits of our relationships and perhaps of care itself? This paper traces the aesthetic and affective considerations of those deciding to die resist against depersonalizing
Miranda Tuckett
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Why Using Religious Arguments in the Euthanasia Discussion is Problematic

open access: yesRevista Latinoamericana de Bioética, 2021
In discussions about assisted dying (euthanasia, assisted suicide), those who argue ‘against’ legalisation often reason from a religious angle, whereas those ‘in favour’ adopt a secular stance.
Theodoor A. Boer
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Prospective oversight and approval of assisted dying cases in Victoria, Australia: a qualitative study of doctors’ perspectives

open access: yesBMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2021
Background Assisted dying (AD) is increasingly becoming lawful internationally. While all AD models have oversight mechanisms, Victoria, Australia is rare in requiring formal approval before AD is permitted.
B. White   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Denying Assisted Dying Where Death is Not ‘Reasonably Foreseeable’: Intolerable Overgeneralization in Canadian End-of-Life Law

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2018
The recent change in Canadian law to allow access to medical assistance in dying restricts eligibility, among its other criteria, to those for whom “natural death has become reasonably foreseeable.” A recent review of certain aspects of the law examined
Kevin Reel
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Perspectives on assisted dying [PDF]

open access: yesMedicine, 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 ...
David, Badcott, Fuat S, Oduncu
openaire   +2 more sources

DEATH ON REQUEST [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2011
The topics of euthanasia and assisted suicide are of profound importance in terms of law, ethics, religion, and social values. The question whether assisted dying should be legalised is often treated, by judges and commentators alike, as a question which
LAURA-CRISTIANA SPATARU-NEGURA
doaj  

A Role for Judges in Assisted Dying [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2009
Medically provoked death, whether euthanasia or assisted suicide, is a common issue for discussion in various forums, participants coming from widely differing fields of knowledge, among who are, of course, doctors. Substantial legal differences exist in
Ana Castelló   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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