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Active Voluntary Euthanasia or Physician‐Assisted Suicide?
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1997OBJECTIVE: To find out why Dutch general practitioners (GPs) and nursing home physicians (NHPs), and patients (according to their physician) opt for active voluntary euthanasia rather than for physician‐assisted suicide, or vice‐versa. DEFINITIONS:
B D, Onwuteaka-Philipsen +4 more
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The Hastings Center Report, 1992
Since the case of Karen Quinlan first seized public attention fifteen years ago, no issue in biomedical ethics has been more prominent than the debate about forgoing life-sustaining treatment. Controversy continues regarding some aspects of that debate, such as forgoing life-sustaining nutrition and hydration, and relevant law varies some from state to
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Since the case of Karen Quinlan first seized public attention fifteen years ago, no issue in biomedical ethics has been more prominent than the debate about forgoing life-sustaining treatment. Controversy continues regarding some aspects of that debate, such as forgoing life-sustaining nutrition and hydration, and relevant law varies some from state to
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Assisted Suicide and Active Voluntary Euthanasia
Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 1989Modern medicine has been enormously successful in saving and extending lives. No one can reasonably regret this, but it exacerbates a problem which has always been with us, namely, how to treat those who are alive, but not living lives they think worthwhile, and have no prospects for anything better. Under current Canadian law, one who wants to die can
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A Concept Analysis of Voluntary Active Euthanasia
Nursing Forum, 2006Euthanasia has a wide range of classifications. Confusion exists in the application of specific concepts to various studies.To analyze the concept of voluntary active euthanasia using Walker and Avant's concept analysis method.A comprehensive literature review from various published literature and bibliographies.Clinical, ethical, and policy ...
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Active voluntary euthanasia : a case for Victoria
2022This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
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The example of Christ and voluntary active euthanasia
Journal of Religion & Health, 1986The Christian church's aversion to suicide need not inform its position on voluntary active euthanasia any more than it informs its understanding of the role Jesus played in securing his own death. When the ontological polarity of freedom and destiny is kept in balance and is in agreement spontaneously and independently, culpability for the death of ...
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U.K. PHYSICIANS'ATTITUDES TOWARD ACTIVE VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE
Death Studies, 2002A 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. Eighty percent of geriatricians, but only 52% of intensive care physicians, considered active voluntary euthanasia as never ...
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Legal aspects of active voluntary euthanasia in Australia
2023This thesis examines the present criminal law position with respect to medically administered active voluntary euthanasia in Australia. Under existing criminal law principles, whilst there is some scope for passive euthanasia, active volunta.rY euthanasia is treated as murder and no account is taken of the special circumstances existing in such cases ...
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2. The Case for Active Voluntary Euthanasia
Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1986I want to begin by making the fundamental point that the question is not whether decisions to end human lives ought to be made but, rather, who makes these decisions, and on the basis of what principles or values. For the fact is that such decisions are already being made, and inevitably must be made, in modern hospitals.For almost any life-threatening
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A Case Against Justified Non-Voluntary Active Euthanasia (The Groningen Protocol)
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2008The Groningen Protocol allows active euthanasia of severely ill newborns with unbearable suffering. Defenders of the protocol insist that the protocol refers to terminally ill infants and that quality of life should not be a factor in the decision to euthanize an infant.
Alan, Jotkowitz, S, Glick, B, Gesundheit
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