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Euthanasia and faith-based aged-care organisations: The right not to kill?

open access: yesChurch, 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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UK geriatricians' attitudes to active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted death.

open access: yesAge and Ageing, 2001
81% considered active voluntary euthanasia never to be justified ethically, although 23% supported legalization in some situations and 13% would be willing to administer active voluntary euthanasia in some situations.
D. Clark   +5 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia

open access: yesBMC 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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Death Anxiety, Immortality Projects and Happiness: A Utilitarian Argument Against the Legalization of Euthanasia

open access: yesConatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2021
The current, utilitarian debate on the relation between euthanasia and happiness focusses primarily on the subject of dying patients. Where some utilitarians stress how euthanasia may relieve suffering in the process of dying, others emphasize the ...
Donovan van der Haak
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When the cause of death does not exist: time for the WHO to close the ICD classification gap for Medical Aid in Dying

open access: yesEClinicalMedicine, 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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Physician Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Experiences in the Netherlands

open access: yesFrontiers 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

open access: yesCanadian 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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Barriers to Utilizing Non-replacement Male Calves in the Australian Dairy Industry: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Male non-replacement calves in dairy systems represent an underutilized economic resource for dairy producers worldwide. Despite this, increasing the practice of rearing non-replacement male calves has significant barriers both in on-farm adoption and ...
Veronika Vicic   +6 more
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A Pro-Choice Response to New York’s Reproductive Health Act

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2021
On 22 January 2019, New York state passed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), which specifies three circumstances under which a healthcare provider may perform an abortion in New York: (1) the patient is within twenty-four weeks of pregnancy, (2) the ...
Bertha Alvarez Manninen
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Medical Assistance in Dying in Psychiatry, An Ethical Analysis.

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction Assisted dying (AD) is a general term in the literature to incorporate both physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and voluntary active euthanasia. In 2002 Belgium became the first country in the world to specifically acknowledge mental suffering
K. Keenan
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