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Is there a place for voluntary active euthanasia in modern-day medicine? [PDF]
South African Family Practice, 2013 This article discusses various ethical and legal concepts regarding euthanasia and includes notions such as physicianassisted suicide, assisted suicide, voluntary active euthanasia, killing versus letting die, indirect euthanasia and terminal sedation ...
G.A. Ogunbanjo, D. Knapp van Bogaert
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Voluntary active euthanasia: Is there a place for it in modern day medicine?
South African Family Practice, 2008 This article discusses various ethical and legal concepts regarding euthanasia and includes concepts like physician assisted suicide, assisted suicide, voluntary active euthanasia, killing vs. letting die, indirect euthanasia and terminal sedation.
Gboyega A. Ogunbanjo +1 more
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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 irrevocability of capital punishment and active voluntary euthanasia [PDF]
, 2020 Peer ...
Sudarshan, Saranga, Saranga Sudarshan
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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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Conatus - 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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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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Analysing restrictive and liberal approaches towards assisted suicide and euthanasia [PDF]
, 2010 MPhil (Laws)The ‘end of life’ issue in relation to assisted suicide and euthanasia is one of our prime concerns and a most widely discussed phenomenon not only in academic and official literature, but also in day-to-day life.
Matker, Prema S
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