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Considerations Regarding the Ethical Viability of Voluntary Active Euthanasia [PDF]
, 2017 Issues regarding death are incredibly complicated and involve topics that are often difficult to discuss. In this essay, I will argue that active euthanasia is morally and ethically permissible in instances involving consenting terminally ill patients ...
Garcia, Grant
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Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: The Cases Are in the Pipeline [PDF]
, 1994 When I first wrote about this subject 36 years ago, the chance that any state would legalize assisted suicide or active voluntary euthanasia seemed minuscule.
Kamisar, Yale
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A deep learning pipeline for identification of motor units in musculoskeletal ultrasound [PDF]
, 2020 Ultrasound imaging provides information from a large part of the muscle. It has recently been shown that ultrafast ultrasound imaging can be used to record and analyze the mechanical response of individual MUs using blind source separation. In this work, we present an alternative method - a deep learning pipeline - to identify active MUs in ultrasound ...
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Death and Dying: An Investigation of Factors that Influence Support for Euthanasia among Thai People [PDF]
, 2014 The present study investigated how Thai people regard euthanasia and their level of support for different types of euthanasia (e.g., active versus passive, voluntary versus non-voluntary).
Chantagul, Natalie
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An Analysis of New York State's Medical Aid in Dying Act (A. 2383A S. 3151)
Voices in Bioethics, 2018 Introduction An amended version of the proposed Medical Aid in Dying Act (A. 2383A S. 3151) was recently filed with the New York State legislature [1].
Michael Dauber
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Euthanasia in alzheimer's disease? [PDF]
, 1933 Journal ArticleOught euthanasia be practiced for persons with advanced dementia? Although the issue of euthanasia is a topic of increasingly heated social debate, already tending to polarize those who support it as voluntary "aid-in-dying" and those who ...
Battin, Margaret P., Binstock, Robert
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Moral Permissibility of Euthanasia- A Bangladesh Context
Bangladesh Journal of BioethicsSurvival is obviously important, but sometimes, under particular circumstances, life can become miserable, difficult, or intolerable; at that point, survival can seem like a punishment or misfortune.
Nilufa Yasmin
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Adaptive Functional Principal Component Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We introduce Adaptive Functional Principal Component Analysis, a novel method to capture directions of variation in functional data that exhibit sharp changes in smoothness. We first propose a new adaptive scatterplot smoothing technique that is fast and scalable, and then integrate this technique into a probabilistic FPCA framework to adaptively ...
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Voices in Bioethics, 2015 The right-to-die debate was cast into the spotlight on November 1, 2014, when Brittany Maynard, a beautiful young California woman, took her own life by a doctor- prescribed lethal dose.
Mahala Yates Stripling
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Medical Students’ Attitude Towards Euthanasiain Qom in 2009
Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum, 2011 Background and Objectives: Among the major issues facing the new world of medical ethics is euthanasia. This is because euthanasia can be related to the value of human life.
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