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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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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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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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Oregon's Physician-Assisted Suicide Law: Provisions and Problems
, 1996 CONCLUSIONS: The Oregon Death With Dignity Act constitutes a major change in social policy and the practices of medicine. Regardless of one's position on the ethics of legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide, the law raises serious problems that must
Emanuel, Ezekiel J., Daniels, Elisabeth
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Conflicts of Conscience: Hospice and Assisted Suicide
, 1995 Proposals to legalize assisted suicide challenge hospice's identity and integrity. In the wake of Measure 16, Oregon hospice programs must develop practical policies to balance traditional commitments not to hasten death and not to abandon patients with ...
Matthews, Pam +2 more
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Palliative Care and Social PracticeBackground: In countries where euthanasia and assisted suicide are not allowed, such as France, little is known about how a request for euthanasia and/or assisted suicide, expressed by an end-of-life patient, impacts their relatives.
Camille De Cock +4 more
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A Voice Against Physician-Assisted Suicide
, 1997 In the early hours of November 14, 1996, Card. Joseph Bernardin died of pancreatic cancer. The Archbishop of Chicago approached death not in fear but as a "transition from earthly life to life eternal." One of his last public acts was writing a letter to
Leibold, Peter, Gilham, Charles
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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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Voluntary active euthanasia: Is there a place for it in modern day medicine?
South African Family Practice, 2008 This article discusses various ethical and legal concepts regarding euthanasia and includes concepts like physician assisted suicide, assisted suicide, voluntary active euthanasia, killing vs. letting die, indirect euthanasia and terminal sedation.
Gboyega A. Ogunbanjo +1 more
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Nonphysician-Assisted Suicide in Switzerland [PDF]
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2013 In general, legal responses to endof-life issues are not very different in Switzerland than in most European countries. For instance, active euthanasia (i.e., killing on request) is illegal, although it is treated as a lesser offense than murder or manslaughter.
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