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A role for doctors in assisted dying? An analysis of legal regulations and medical professional positions in six European countries [PDF]

, 2008
An extensive debate about assisted suicide and euthanasia has been taking place in westernized countries during the last twenty years. Traditionally, the medical profession has maintained a clear distance from euthanasia and assisted suicide, but this ...
Bosshard, G., Broeckaert, B., Clark, D., Gordijn, B., Materstvedt, L.J., Müller-Busc, C.   +5 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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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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Nurse Prescribers and legalising assisted suicide in the UK [PDF]

, 2016
Should assisted suicide be legalised? This is a topic of debate in the UK once again. The House of Lords and the Judiciary indicate that legislation must be enacted by the Government to make assisted suicide a reality.
Gagan, Mark, Hartwell, Matthew
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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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UK Public’s Views and Perceptions About the Legalisation of Assisted Dying and Assisted Suicide

Omega, 2020
Current debates about assisted dying and assisted suicide cover a series of medical, legal, moral, ethical and religious aspects. Yet, public views on the subject remain underexplored and, therefore, not always accounted for in the formation of public ...
Panagiotis Pentaris, Lucy Jacobs
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Rational suicide: The paradigm of survival

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Suicide is an intriguing act of the human being. The reasons behind the violation of an instinct for survival is far from being understood.
S. Torres
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Time-trends in assisted and unassisted suicides completed with different methods: Swiss National Cohort

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2015
OBJECTIVE: The number of suicides assisted by right-to-die associations has increased in recent years in Switzerland. The aim of our study was to compare time trends in rates of assisted and unassisted suicide from 1991–2008.
Nicole Steck, Marcel Zwahlen, Matthias Egger   +2 more
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Physicians’ experiences with euthanasia: a cross-sectional survey amongst a random sample of Dutch physicians to explore their concerns, feelings and pressure

BMC Family Practice, 2019
Background Physicians who receive a request for euthanasia or assisted suicide may experience a conflict of duties: the duty to preserve life on the one hand and the duty to relieve suffering on the other hand.
Kirsten Evenblij, H. Roeline W. Pasman, Johannes J. M. van Delden, Agnes van der Heide, Suzanne van de Vathorst, Dick L. Willems, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen   +6 more
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Perception of Physicians Working in Chile Toward Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2022
Introduction: Assisted suicide and euthanasia are controversial issues today and have been throughout the history of humanity, mainly because there are individuals for and against them. Currently, the legalization of these practices is being discussed in
Yelson Alejandro Picón-Jaimes, Javier Esteban Orozco-Chinome, Iván David Lozada-Martínez, Sandra Mass-Ramirez, Carlos Iván Higuera-Cetina, Lina María Montaña-Gómez, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, Alexis Rafael Narvaez-Rojas   +7 more
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