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May Christians request medically assisted suicide and euthanasia?
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 The article deals with the question: ‘Is it morally acceptable for terminally ill Christians to voluntarily request medically assisted suicide or euthanasia?’ After a brief discussion of relevant changes in the moral landscape over the last century, two ...
D. Etienne de Villiers
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Dementia and assisted suicide and euthanasia [PDF]
Journal of Neurology, 2016 The number of dementia patients requesting euthanasia in the Netherlands has increased over the past five years. The issue is highly controversial. In this contribution we discuss some of the main arguments: the nature of suffering, the voluntariness of the request and the role of the physician. We argue that society has a duty to care for patients who
Inez de Beaufort +2 more
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The perspective of nurses towards euthanasia and assisted suicide: a review article [PDF]
Report of Health Care, 2015 Euthanasia or assisted suicide is a contentious issue that provokes substantial clinical and ethical debate. Nurses have a key role in caring for end-of-life patients. They are also often involved in euthanasia or assisted suicide. Therefore, we aimed to
Alireza Yousefy +2 more
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Beyond administrative burden: Activation and administrative harm
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract Within recent public policy and administration scholarship, there has been a growing focus on the concept of “administrative burden” to describe the learning, compliance and psychological costs incurred by citizens when trying to access services and exercise social and political rights. Specifically, in the context of activation and welfare‐to‐
Michael McGann, Sarah Ball
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Memento Mori: The Death Between the Dogmatic and the Zetetic
Revista de Biodireito e Direito dos Animais, 2015 The present paper aims to conduct a study about the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide. At first, it is pointed a few essentials assumptions to the construction of the paper. The development occurs through the dogmatic/zetetic dichotomy.
Lucas Costa de Oliveira
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Suicidal Ideation Detection on Social Media: A Review of Machine Learning Methods [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Social media platforms have transformed traditional communication methods by allowing users worldwide to communicate instantly, openly, and frequently. People use social media to express their opinion and share their personal stories and struggles. Negative feelings that express hardship, thoughts of death, and self-harm are widespread in social media,
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract Non‐binary and genderqueer identities are increasingly discussed in public discourse and academia, but there remains a dearth of academic literature centred on non‐binary people's lives and experiences. When non‐binary people are included in research, it is frequently as an additive to explorations of trans identities and subsumed under the ...
Lucy Nicholas, Sal Clark, Chloe Falzon
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The sanctity of life: The role of purity in attitudes towards abortion and euthanasia
International Journal of Psychology, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 16-29, February 2023., 2023 Although abortion and euthanasia are highly contested issues at the heart of the culture war, the moral foundations underlying ideological differences on these issues are mostly unknown. Given that much of the extant debate is framed around the sanctity of life, we argued that the moral foundation of purity/sanctity—a core moral belief that emphasises ...
Christopher Lockhart +3 more
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Aspects of Euthanasia in Criminal Law [PDF]
Societas et Iurisprudentia, 2018 The question of euthanasia and its impunity raises many legal and moral issues which are not answered. The intention of this paper is not to express an opinion about suitability or morality of euthanasia or assisted suicide and it also does not contain ...
Vladimíra Dercová
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BMC Medicine, 2017 Background A competent patient has the right to refuse foods and fluids even if the patient will die. The exercise of this right, known as voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), is sometimes proposed as an alternative to physician assisted ...
Andrew McGee, Franklin G. Miller
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