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A Test for Mental Capacity to Request Assisted Suicide
, 2011 The mental competence of people requesting aid-in-dying is a key issue for the how the law responds to cases of assisted suicide. A number of cases from around the common law world have highlighted the importance of competence in determining whether ...
Peisah, Carmelle +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng +4 more
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Against commercial‐assisted suicide
Bioethics, 2023 AbstractThe idea of commercial‐assisted suicide lives a marginal existence in the bioethical literature, despite its significant presence in popular culture. The practice of commercial‐assisted suicide (CAS) is defined as suicide assistance performed for a financial reward through a contractual agreement between a customer and a service‐provider, who ...
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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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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey +3 more
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European PsychiatryBackground Decisional capacity is an important requirement for assisted suicide, which has been legalized in an increasing number of countries. While several instruments have been developed over the past few decades to assess the capacity to consent to ...
Leonie Kupsch +4 more
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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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Assisted Suicide: Clinical Realities and Ethical Challenges
, 1996 The increasing attention to assisted suicide, as evidenced by recent legislation, initiatives, court decisions, and research, propels the issue to a new level of importance and urgency within society and the health professions.
Rushton, Cindy Hylton, Scanlon, Colleen
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Does Physician Assisted Suicide Violate the Integrity of Medicine?
, 1995 This paper evaluates the arguments against physician assisted suicide which contend that it violates the integrity of medicine and the physician-patient relation; i.e., that it contradicts the goal of seeking health and healing, violates an absolute ...
Momeyer, Richard
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Breaking point: Identifying the factors that predict suspension from school
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract School suspensions are associated with adverse educational and psychosocial outcomes, yet little is known about how structural disadvantage, relational factors, health behaviours, well‐being indicators and school‐level factors jointly predict suspension risk in England.
Stephanie Cahill +5 more
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