Physician Assisted Suicide [PDF]
The Linacre Quarterly, 1994 The term "physician assisted suicide" is an oxymoron. The education and training of a physician is directed to diagnosing and treating illnesses in an attempt to cure and save the life of his patient and to give comfort during periods of stress and bereavement.
Millard, Charles E.
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Assessment of decisional capacity. A systematic review and analysis of instruments regarding their applicability to requests for assisted suicide [PDF]
European PsychiatryBackground Decisional capacity is an important requirement for assisted suicide, which has been legalized in an increasing number of countries. While several instruments have been developed over the past few decades to assess the capacity to consent to ...
Leonie Kupsch +4 more
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Do mental or somatic diagnoses influence emotional response and perception of physician-assisted suicide in Germany? A vignette-based experiment [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is increasingly being legalized in a growing number of countries and is the focus of societal and ethical debates.
Laura Hofmann, Birgit Wagner
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Assisted suicide is a critical problem in psychiatry [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction Active euthanasia is currently permitted in Netherlands, Belgium, Colombia, Luxembourg, Canada, Australia and India. Assisted suicide is allowed in Switzerland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, as well as in the states of Washington, Oregon ...
P. Liubov
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Requesting euthanasia or assisted suicide when it is illegal: a qualitative study about relatives’ experiences of patients hospitalized in French Palliative Care Units [PDF]
Palliative Care and Social PracticeBackground: In countries where euthanasia and assisted suicide are not allowed, such as France, little is known about how a request for euthanasia and/or assisted suicide, expressed by an end-of-life patient, impacts their relatives.
Camille De Cock +4 more
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Attitudes towards euthanasia and assisted suicide: a cross-sectional study among physicians in Estonia [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjective This study aimed to analyse the attitudes of physicians working in Estonia towards the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide, their willingness to perform these practices and the association of these factors with a range of physician ...
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Assisted Suicide in Parkinsonian Disorders [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Background: Due to the high prevalence of suicidal ideation in Parkinson's Disease (PD) and exploratory data indicating a similar prevalence in atypical Parkinsonian disorders (APD), we sought to determine the frequency of assisted suicide (AS) as well ...
Georg S. Nuebling +5 more
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Exploring the role of AI in classifying, analyzing, and generating case reports on assisted suicide cases: feasibility and ethical implications [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023 This paper presents a study on the use of AI models for the classification of case reports on assisted suicide procedures. The database of the five Dutch regional bioethics committees was scraped to collect the 72 case reports available in English.
Giovanni Spitale +3 more
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Challenges 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
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