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Death with Dignity in Canada

Voices in Bioethics, 2022
Photo by Chris Robert on Unsplash INTRODUCTION If a terminally ill individual suffers from enduring pain and exhausts all other treatment options, upholding death with dignity through medical assistance in dying (MAID) is how physicians can ...
Anna Vargo
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News media coverage of euthanasia: A content analysis of Dutch national newspapers [PDF]

, 2013
© 2013 Rietjens et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
Raijmakers, Natasja, Judith AC Rietjens, Johannes JM van Delden, LS Bestuurkunde, van der Heide, A., Rietjens, J.A.C. (Judith), Ghislaine JMW van Thiel, Rietjens, Judith, Kouwenhoven, PSC, van Thiel, GJMW, Clive Seale, Kouwenhoven, P.S.C., Seale, C., Raijmakers, N.J., Natasja JH Raijmakers, Seale, C, Rietjens, JAC, Raijmakers, NJH, van Delden, JJM, Agnes van der Heide, Trappenburg, M.J., Rietjens, J.A.C., UU LEG Research USG Public Matters, Margo Trappenburg, Delden, J.J.M. (Hans) van, Trappenburg, M., Pauline SC Kouwenhoven, van der Heide, Agnes; id_orcid, Raijmakers, N.J.H. (Natasja), Kouwenhoven, P.S.C. (Pauline), Thiel, G.J.M.W. (Ghislaine) van, van Thiel, G.J.M.W., Seale, C. (Clive), van der Heide, A, Trappenburg, M, van Delden, J.J.M., UU LEG Research USG Public Matters Public Governance and Management, Heide, A. (Agnes) van der, Raijmakers, N.J.H., Trappenburg, M.J. (Margo)   +39 more
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The risks of using continuous deep palliative sedation within the context of euthanasia

SHS Web of Conferences, 2016
Although palliative care is one of the main arguments among the opponents of euthanasia, the individual medical activities implemented within it are not always evaluated unequivocally.
Polaks R.
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Voluntary Active Euthanasia

, 1992
I have cited both good and bad consequences that have been thought likely from a policy change permitting voluntary active euthanasia, and have tried to evaluate their likelihood and relative importance.
Brock, Dan W.
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Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia: Why the Difference in Attitude?

, 1995
It appears that the attitudes of health professionals differ towards suicide and voluntary active euthanasia. An acceptance of, if not an agreement with, voluntary active euthanasia exists, while there is a general consensus that suicide should be ...
Beech, Ian
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Euthanasia in the Major World Religions [PDF]

اخلاق وحیانی, 2015
“Euthanasia” or voluntary termination of life is one the most complicated issues in the moral, legal and religious debates nowadays. In the meantime, the role of religions in directing the views of researchers is obvious. In this article, a brief look at
Angeliki Ziaka
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Controlling Death. Highlights from Harvard Medical School Annual Bioethics Conference

Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética, 2019
The 2019 Harvard Medical School Annual Bioethics Conference questioned if we’re controlling death by choosing when and how we die. This integrative review compared literature findings with the discussion of the Conference.
Rosamaria Gomes Rodrigues, Carlos Adriano Silva dos Santos   +1 more
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The Case Against Legalizing Medically Assisted Suicide or Voluntary Active Euthanasia in Islamic Regions.

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
This essay presents arguments against legalizing medically assisted suicide (MAS) or voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) in Islamic regions. MAS and VAE should be determined by particular regions based on their respective mainstream moral cultures.
S. Siraj, Rui-Ping Fan
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Active Euthanasia in the Netherlands

, 1989
A Dutch bioethicist discusses the status of voluntary, active euthanasia as it is practiced currently in the Netherlands, and traces the medical, legal, and public policy developments in the issue from the early 1970s to the late 1980s.
de Wachter, Maurice A.M., de Wachter, M.A.M.   +1 more
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The body as unwarranted life support: a new perspective on euthanasia [PDF]

, 2007
It is widely accepted in clinical ethics that removing a patient from a ventilator at the patient's request is ethically permissible. This constitutes voluntary passive euthanasia.
Shaw, D., Shaw, David
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