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Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia

open access: yesIranian Journal of Public Health, 2018
Background: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide.
Božidar BANOVIĆ   +2 more
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Providers of and participants in suicide assistance in Germany: A field description based on expert interviews.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
BackgroundOver the past 20 years, assisted dying practices have been legalised in an increasing number of countries around the world. After a decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court in 2020, suicide assistance is unregulated in Germany but ...
Sven Schwabe, Franziska A Herbst
doaj   +1 more source

ATTITUDE OF PAKISTANI DOCTORS TOWARDS EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE

open access: yesPakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2010
Objective: To determine the attitude of junior and senior Pakistani physicians towards euthanasia and assisted suicide. Study Design: A descriptive study.
Tahir Ahmed Munir   +2 more
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A complex suicide by vehicle assisted ligature strangulation and wrist-cutting

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2016
Background: Complex suicide defines the type of suicide involving using more than one suicide methods to lead to death. Second method is used to escape from pain or to prevent failure of the first method. Here we present a case of unusual complex suicide
Ramazan Akçan   +3 more
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Assisted Suicide: An Italian Perscpective

open access: yes, 2021
The unrestrainable evolution of medical science and technology is drastically changing health-care, enabling new medical procedures and remedies, which are increasingly intertwined with moral principles. Although a uniform European approach on assisted suicide is lacking, a common trend is developing: the boundary between euthanasia, assisted suicide ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Physician Assisted Suicide: New Developments in the Netherlands

open access: yes, 1995
Until recently, physician assisted suicide was dealt with on the same basis as active voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands. Over the last years, several cases relating to assistance in suicide of mental patients did raise specific issues, not ...
Gevers, Sjef
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The Case for Phycisian Assisted Suicide: How Can It Possible Be Proven?

open access: yes, 2006
In her paper, The case for physician assisted suicide: not (yet) proven, Bonnie Steinbock argues that the experience with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act fails to demonstrate that the benefits of legalising physician assisted suicide outweigh its risks ...
Dahl, E., Levy, N.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Dutch Courts

open access: yes, 1996
...Until recently, little attention was paid to PAS [physician-assisted suicide] as such. During the last years, however, several cases of PAS that do not resemble the usual euthanasia cases have been brought before the [Dutch] courts.
Gevers, J.K.M.
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Balancing Ethics, Education, and Compassion in Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Internal Medicine
Objective: It is 2024, and the debate of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia remains highly complex and impactful. This discussion extends to the legal and ethical theories that affect these issues, but also profoundly impact real lives and ...
Kamaljot Kaur Ahuja   +3 more
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Physician-Assisted Suicide in Alzheimer's Disease

open access: yes, 1997
This paper takes up the question of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), reviewing arguments for and against in a broad interdisciplinary context.
Post, Stephen G.
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