Attitudes Toward Active Voluntary Euthanasia Among Community-Dwelling Older Subjects [PDF]
SAGE Open, 2018 The major extension of late-life expectancy has increased the significance of end-of-life issues, particularly among elderly people, considering both the role of medical practices in shaping and defining dying trajectories and the differences in national
Stefano Poli
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Attitudes of undergraduate medical students towards end-of-life decisions: a systematic review of influencing factors [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground Medical end-of-life decisions, including voluntary active euthanasia (lethal injection), (physician-)assisted dying (prescribing lethal substances), passive euthanasia (refraining from or ceasing life-sustaining treatments), palliative ...
Julia S. Grundnig +4 more
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Disparity in attitudes regarding assisted dying among physicians and the general public in Japan [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground Recently, an increasing number of countries have been allowing voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) as part of palliative care.
Yoshiyuki Takimoto, Tadanori Nabeshima
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The attitude of Tunisian medicine resident toward euthanasia [PDF]
European PsychiatryIntroduction Euthanasia is the active deliberate ending of life by another person at the explicit request of a patient who is suffering from an incurable condition deemed unbearable by him or her.young doctors in tunisia might be exposed in their daily ...
A. Touiti, C. Ben Said, N. Bram
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Euthanasia and faith-based aged-care organisations: The right not to kill?
Church, Communication and Culture, 2023 In this paper we focus on an important specific issue which has not received serious attention in the scholarly literature on euthanasia, namely, that of the coercive imposition (by way of sanction-backed regulations) of the practice of voluntary active ...
Seumas Miller, Virginia Miller
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Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia
BMC Medical Ethics, 2023 Background Doctors are increasingly faced with end-of-life decisions. Little is known about how medical students approach euthanasia. The objective of this study was to evaluate, among medical students and residents, the view on euthanasia and its ...
Rogério Aparecido Dedivitis +5 more
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EClinicalMedicine, 2023 Summary: Medical aid in dying (MAID) is a highly controversial ethical issue in the global medical community. Unfortunately, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) of the World Health Organization (WHO) lacks coding for MAID.
Uwe Güth +4 more
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Nursing and euthanasia : a narrative review of the nursing ethics literature [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Medical Assistance in Dying, also known as euthanasia or assisted suicide, is expanding internationally. Canada is the first country to permit Nurse Practitioners to provide euthanasia.
Burgess, Michael +7 more
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Physician Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Experiences in the Netherlands
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 Physician assisted death (PAD) for patients with a psychiatric disorder is a controversial topic of increasing relevance, since a growing number of countries are allowing it.
SMP van Veen +5 more
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Getting Real About Killing and Allowing to Die: A Critical Discussion of the Literature
Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2021 The moral significance of the distinction between killing and allowing to die has played a key role in debates about euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.
Andrew Stumpf, Dominic Rogalski
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