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ICU health care workers opinion on physician-assisted-suicide and euthanasia: a French survey

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, Alexandre Boyer, Bertrand Guidet, Alexandre Lautrette, Jean Reignier, Guillaume Thiery, René Robert   +6 more
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Suicide and Assisted Suicide in Criminal Law and Canon Law [PDF]

Societas et Iurisprudentia, 2021
The paper deals with the issue of suicide and assisted suicide, especially its ethical, criminal law and canon law evaluation. In the first chapter, the author explains what needs to be perceived under these terms and how they differ from euthanasia ...
Štefan Zeman
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?I Should at Least Have the Feeling That It [?] Really Comes from Within?: Professional Nursing Views on Assisted Suicide

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, Friedemann Nauck, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Henrikje Stanze   +3 more
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Types of suicide pacts: a comparative analysis using the National Violent Death Reporting System

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
IntroductionSuicide pacts are lethal acts of violence involving multiple decedents. No study has ever compared suicide pact types using a large sample, limiting our understanding of this rare but serious phenomenon. The objective of the current study was
Kawon Victoria Kim, Kawon Victoria Kim, Cayley Russell, Cayley Russell, Mark S. Kaplan, Jürgen Rehm, Jürgen Rehm, Jürgen Rehm, Jürgen Rehm, Jürgen Rehm, Jürgen Rehm, Jürgen Rehm, Jürgen Rehm, Jürgen Rehm, Shannon Lange, Shannon Lange, Shannon Lange   +16 more
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“Swiss physicians’ attitudes to assisted suicide”

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2015
PRINCIPLES: In Switzerland, assisted suicide is legal as long as it does not involve self-serving motives. Physician-assisted suicide is regulated by specific guidelines issued by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS).
Susanne Brauer, Christian Bolliger, Jean-Daniel Strub   +2 more
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Firearm suicide decedents in the Republic of Ireland, 1980–2005 [PDF]

, 2010
Objectives To compare the sociodemographic characteristics of firearms suicide decedents and other suicide decedents in the Republic of Ireland between 1980 and 2005.
Kola, Susanna, S. Kola, K. Sarma, Sarma, K.   +3 more
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Attitudes of university hospital staff towards in-house assisted suicide.

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, Angèle Gayet-Ageron, Gian Domenico Borasio, Samia Hurst, Ralf J Jox, Bara Ricou   +5 more
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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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Physician-assisted suicide: a review of the literature concerning practical and clinical implications for UK doctors

BMC Family Practice, 2006
Background A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the UK recently made significant progress in the British House of Lords and will be reintroduced in the future.
Hicks Madelyn
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A qualitative study on continuous deep sedation until death as an alternative to assisted suicide in Switzerland

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background According to the European Association for Palliative Care, decisions regarding palliative sedation should not be made in response to requests for assisted dying, such as euthanasia or assisted suicide.
Martyna Tomczyk, Nathalie Dieudonné-Rahm, Ralf J. Jox   +2 more
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