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Suicidal behavior and assisted suicide in dementia

International Psychogeriatrics, 2015
Concerns about suicide risk in people with dementia have been increasing in recent years along with a discourse about rational suicide and assisted suicide.A systematic narrative literature review of suicidal behavior and assisted suicide in persons with dementia.Most studies that have examined the spectrum of suicidal ideation, attempted suicide and ...
Brian M. Draper, Henry Brodaty
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CONCEPTUAL, LEGAL, AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE: AN OVERVIEW

UUM Journal of Legal Studies
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) remains a contentious and highly debated topic within medical, legal, and ethical spheres. The complex issue of (PAS) raises significant inquiries regarding patient autonomy and societal norms. Ambiguities in conceptual,
Nehaluddin Ahmad, Ahmad Masum, Aqilah Walin Ali   +2 more
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Faith and Reason and Physician-Assisted Suicide

, 1998
Aquinas's conception of the relationship of faith and reason calls into question the arguments and some of the conclusions advanced in contributions to the debate on physician-assisted suicide by David Thomasma and H. Tristram Engelhardt.
Kaczor, Christopher
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Requests for Assisted Suicide: A Nursing Issue

, 1998
At the heart of the debate over assisted suicide is the recognition that not all persons can be healed and not all suffering can be relieved. This article addresses the ethical, professional and legal issues to be considered by the nurses in the United ...
Kennedy, Susan Lorraine, Kopala, Beverly
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Do mental or somatic diagnoses influence emotional response and perception of physician-assisted suicide in Germany? A vignette-based experiment

BMC Medical Ethics
Background 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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Physician-Assisted Suicide: Promoting Autonomy -- or Medicalizing Suicide?

, 1999
Assisted suicide, many argue, honors self-determination in returning control of their dying to patients themselves. But physician assistance and measures proposed to safeguard patients from coercion in fact return ultimate authority over this "private ...
Salem, Tania
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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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Practical Issues in Physician-Assisted Suicide

, 1997
Support for the participation of physicians in the suicides of terminally ill patients is increasing, and the concrete effects on physician practice of a policy change with regard to physician-assisted suicide must be carefully considered.
Drickamer, Margaret A., Ganzini, Linda, Lee, Melinda A.   +2 more
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Estimating the burden of disease attributable to non-assisted suicide in Switzerland from 2009 to 2021: a secondary data analysis

Swiss Medical Weekly
CONTEXT AND GOAL: This research addresses the issue of suicide and attempted suicide, which have a significant impact on global premature mortality and disability.
Annora Mack, Sarah Rajkumar, Jacob Kofler, Kaspar Wyss   +3 more
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Killing Us Softly: The Dangers of Legalizing Assisted Suicide

, 2010
This article is an overview of the problems with the legalization of assisted suicide as public policy. The disability community's opposition to assisted suicide stems in part from factors that directly impact the disability community as well as all of ...
Zoanni, Tyler, Golden, Marilyn
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