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Still safe; still respectful: a mixed methods study exploring the early experiences of a rural community hospice in providing voluntary assisted dying

BMC Palliative Care
Background Voluntary assisted dying has become available as an end-of-life choice in many countries, including Australia. There is evidence on the mixed impact of voluntary assisted dying legislation on palliative care healthcare professionals, however ...
Kirsten Auret, Terri J Pikora, Beatriz Cuesta Briand   +2 more
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Conventional and assisted suicide in Switzerland: Insights into a divergent development based on cancer‐associated self‐initiated deaths

Cancer Medicine, 2023
Background We tested the hypothesis of supporters of assisted dying that assisted suicide (AS) might be able to prevent cases of conventional suicide (CS).
Uwe Güth, Christoph Junker, Bernice Simone Elger, Constanze Elfgen, Giacomo Montagna, Andres R. Schneeberger   +5 more
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Is there a human right to be assisted in dying? [Temos um direito humano a ser assistido na morte?]

Princípios, 2016
This paper will focus on the issue of whether it is plausible to think about a human right to be assisted in dying. The right to be assisted in dying cannot be considered just a right of non-interference.
Milene Tonetto
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Attitudes towards assisted suicide and euthanasia among care-dependent older adults (50+) in Austria: the role of socio-demographics, religiosity, physical illness, psychological distress, and social isolation

BMC Medical Ethics, 2017
Background Care-dependency constitutes an important issue with regard to the approval of end-of-life decisions, yet attitudes towards assisted suicide and euthanasia are understudied among care-dependent older adults.
Erwin Stolz, Hannes Mayerl, Peter Gasser-Steiner, Wolfgang Freidl   +3 more
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Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: is medical support ethically justified?

BMC Medicine, 2017
Background Physician-assisted dying has been the subject of extensive discussion and legislative activity both in Europe and North America. In this context, dying by voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is often proposed, and practiced, as an
Ralf J. Jox, Isra Black, Gian Domenico Borasio, Johanna Anneser   +3 more
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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.
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What's So Special About Medically Assisted Dying?

Canadian Journal of Bioethics
Critics of Canada’s current medical assistance in dying (MAiD) regime commonly employ two types of argument: 1) that the number of annual provisions shows that it is out of control or on a slippery slope, and 2) that it puts persons with disabilities at
Wayne Sumner
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Euthanasia and Assisted Death

پژوهش در دین و سلامت, 2016
For downloading the full-text of this article please click here. Euthanasia phenomenon is one of the major and emerging events in medical sciences which today many issues have been raised about it.
Morteza Abdoljabari, Marzieh Karamkhani, Mahdi Fani, Fatemeh Dolatshahi   +3 more
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Autonomy, voluntariness and assisted dying [PDF]

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2019
Ethical arguments about assisted dying often focus on whether or not respect for an individual’s autonomy gives a reason to offer them an assisted death if they want it. In this paper, I present an argument for legalising assisted dying which appeals to the autonomy of people who don’t want to die. Adding that option can transform the nature of someone’
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Assisted death in eating disorders: a systematic review of cases and clinical rationales

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundAssisted dying for reasons solely related to an eating disorder (ED) has occurred in multiple countries, including those which restrict the practice to individuals with a terminal condition.
Chelsea Roff, Catherine Cook-Cottone
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