?I Should at Least Have the Feeling That It [?] Really Comes from Within?: Professional Nursing Views on Assisted Suicide [PDF]
Palliative Medicine Reports, 2023 Background: Due to a decision by the German Federal Constitutional Court of February 26, 2020, it is currently possible in Germany to avail of assisted suicide. The ruling has given rise to a controversial debate within the professional community as well
Lena D?rmann +3 more
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ICU health care workers opinion on physician-assisted-suicide and euthanasia: a French survey [PDF]
Annals of Intensive Care, 2023 Background In France, physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia are not legal but are still debated. French intensive care unit (ICU) health care workers (HCWs) have an insider’s perspective on the global quality of the patient’s end-of-life, whether it ...
Mathieu Acquier +6 more
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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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Attitudes of university hospital staff towards in-house assisted suicide. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 ObjectiveTo investigate staff attitudes toward assisted suicide in the hospital setting in Switzerland.DesignCross-sectional study.SettingTwo University Hospitals in French speaking regions of Switzerland.Participants13'834 health care professionals ...
Claudia Gamondi +5 more
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On contemporary aspects of assisted suicide at plato [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Usually, Plato is not considered a philosopher that comprehensively treated the matter of suicide. By studying Plato’s work (especially Crito, Phaedo, the Republic and the Laws), we observe that Plato was concerned with the problem of ...
A. Voinov
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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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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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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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Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2022 Background There has been no in-depth research of public attitudes on withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide and physician assisted suicide in Croatia.
Ana Borovecki +9 more
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023 BACKGROUND: Older adults are at risk of assisted and self-initiated suicide. The links between prior attempts and assisted suicide in the elderly have not been investigated.
Nathalie Dieudonné Rahm, Sophie Pautex
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