Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Arguing for a Distinction [PDF]
, 2004 In this essay, I will try to analyze the problems of assisted suicide and euthanasia by using the Joel Feinberg’s analysis of the so-called ‘right to life’ and the Wesley Hohfeld’s legal terminology.
Del Bò, Corrado
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Introductory Remarks of Panel II: Legal, Medical, and Ethical Considerations for the Future of Physician-Assisted Suicice Symposium: Physician-Assusted Suicide: Legal Rights in Life and Death: Introductory Remarks of Panel II: Legal, Medicial, and Ethical Considerations for the Future of Physician-Assisted Suicide [PDF]
, 1996 Once the Supreme Court issues it decision in the cases of Quill v. Vacco1 and Compassion in Dying v. Washington2 regarding the constitutionality of outlawing physician-assisted suicide for competent and terminally ill persons, the tension surrounding ...
Hernandez, Tanya K.
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FDA Regulation and Patient Assisted Suicides [PDF]
, 2012 There are an increasing number of Americans who believe that the marginal benefit of surviving a few extra months is not worth the cost of suffering the pain, physical and/or mental deterioration, or increased dependency they would experience during that
Weiss, David S.
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Assisted suicide: An evaluation
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 1991 Physician-assisted suicide is a form of euthanasia. As such, it is contrary to one's ethical responsibility to self, community, and God. Religious tradition, medical tradition, and modern psychology attest that physician-assisted suicide does not solve any human problem.
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A complex suicide by vehicle assisted ligature strangulation and wrist-cutting
Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2016 Background: Complex suicide defines the type of suicide involving using more than one suicide methods to lead to death. Second method is used to escape from pain or to prevent failure of the first method. Here we present a case of unusual complex suicide
Ramazan Akçan +3 more
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The Necessary Right of Choice for Physician-Assisted Suicide [PDF]
, 2017 Research-based paper on the importance of the right for terminally ill patients facing a painful death to be able to choose how they end their ...
Ullman, Kerry E.
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Social acknowledgement as a predictor of post-traumatic stress and complicated grief after witnessing assisted suicide [PDF]
, 2011 Background: In Switzerland, right-to-die organizations such as Exit Deutsche Schweiz offer suicide assistance to their members. However, there is limited knowledge of the impact that witnessing assisted suicide has on the post- traumatic stress severity ...
Keller, Valerie +3 more
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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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Is there a Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide? [PDF]
, 1997 In Part I, the author explains that it is the adjudication between the conflicting claims of individual liberty, personal autonomy and self-determination versus the preservation of life as a societal value that is at the core of the issue posed by ...
Bleich, J. David
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Audience responses to representations of family-assisted suicide on British television [PDF]
, 2017 Reflecting on different generic conventions, this study highlights the strengths and weaknesses of documentaries and soap operas in addressing the societal and the personal dimensions of family-assisted suicide.
Christopher E. Moorman (501551) +5 more
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