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Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Christian Bioethics: Moral Controversy in Germany
Discussions in Germany regarding appropriate end-of-life decision-making have been heavily influenced by the liberalization of access to physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia in the Netherlands and Belgium. These discussions disclose
May, Arnd T.
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[Attitude towards active voluntary euthanasia].
1,208 adult Norwegians constituting a representative sample of the population (above 20 years of age), were interviewed about doctors' right to practice euthanasia upon request for a dying and suffering patient. 56% were in favour (with varying degrees of agreement), 19% against, and 25% undecided.
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Aid-in-Dying: Should We Decriminalize Physician-Assisted Suicide and Physician-Committed Euthanasia?
Recent news stories, medical journal articles, and two state voter referenda have publicized physicians' providing their patients with aid-in-dying.
CeloCruz, Maria T.
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Voluntary active euthanasia: Justifications and regulations
Voluntary active euthanasia is the most controversial category ofeuthanasia, which itself causes a great amount of discussions. This thesis defendsthe position that voluntary active euthanasia should be considered morally andlegally permissible under certain circumstances in which it becomes the ?mostappropriate medical treatment?.
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A qualitative study explored beliefs about active voluntary euthanasia (AVE) in a sample (N = 18) of medical practitioners and nurses from Australia, where AVE is not currently legal.
K. Hyde, Melissa +13 more
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Moving from voluntary euthanasia to non-voluntary euthanasia: equality and compassion
The recent Dutch law legalising active voluntary euthanasia will reignite the euthanasia debate. An illuminating method for evaluating the moral status of a practice is to follow the implications of the practice to its logical conclusion.
Mirko Bagaric (13059921) +1 more
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U.K. physicians' attitudes toward active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
A comparison of the views of geriatric medicine physicians and intensive care physicians in the United Kingdom on the topics of active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide revealed rather different attitudes.
Dickinson, G. +4 more
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Euthanasia, Virtue Ethics and the Law
Following the recent revival of virtue ethics, a number of ethicists have discussed the moral problems surrounding euthanasia by drawing on concepts such as compassion, benevolence, death with dignity, mercy, and by inquiring whether euthanasia is ...
van Zyl, Liezl
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Definitional confusion in nurses' and physicians' attitudes toward euthanasia in India: A systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Kashyap K, Gielen J.
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