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An argument for physician-assisted suicide and against euthanasia [PDF]

, 2015
The article opens with the hypothesis that the default position that should guide healthcare providers when treating patients at the end-of-life is that patients opt for life. In the absence of an explicit request to die, we may assume that patients wish
Beckford, Bedell, Bernheim, Bilsen, Bilsen, Casarett, Chambaere, Chambaere, Chamber of the Representatives of Belgium, Cohen-Almagor, Cohen-Almagor, Cohen-Almagor, Cohen-Almagor, Cohen-Almagor, Cohen-Almagor, Cohen-Almagor, Cohen-Almagor, Cohen-Almagor, Cook, Cook, Cook, Cook, Culzac, de Diesbach, Delamothe, Deliens, den Hartogh, Gamondi, General Medical Council, Gomez, Haerens, Hardwig, Harris, Hendin, Heneghan, Jochemsen, Keown, Keown, Kuhse, Kuhse, Kuhse, Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Pardon, Quebec Bill 52, Schuklenk, Sercu, Sheldon, Singer, Sprung, Steck, Swildens-Rozendaal, van der Heide, van der Heide, van der Heide, van der Wal, Visser   +56 more
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Unchecked strategy diversification and collapse in continuous voluntary public good games [PDF]

arXiv, 2015
Cooperation or defection and participation or withdrawal are well-known options of behavior in game-like activities in free societies, yet the co-evolutionary dynamics of these behavioral traits in the individual level are not well understood. Here we investigate the continuous voluntary public good game, in which individuals have two types of ...
arxiv  

End-of-Life Decisions, Ethics and the Law [PDF]

, 2012
This position paper puts forward an ethical case for end-of-life decision-mak¬ing legislation. Such legislation would clarify areas of legal uncertainty, most notably in respect of terminal pain management, withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining ...
Landman, Willem A.
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Old age rational suicide [PDF]

, 2017
In the societal debate surrounding voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, there is a concern that older people will be left exposed to any legislation, subject to either faint suggestion or outright coercion from familial or professional ...
Richards, Naomi
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Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2018
Background: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide.
Božidar BANOVIĆ, Veljko TURANJANIN, Emir ĆOROVIĆ   +2 more
doaj  

Descriptions of euthanasia as social representations: comparing the views of Finnish physicians and religious professionals [PDF]

, 2013
In many western societies health professionals play a powerful role in people's experiences of dying. Religious professionals, such as pastors, are also confronted with the issues surrounding death and dying in their work.
Cohen, Joachim, Deliens, Luc, Jylhänkangas, Leila, Smets, Tinne, Utriainen, Terhi   +4 more
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First do no harm: intentionally shortening lives of patients without their explicit request in Belgium [PDF]

, 2015
The aim of this article is to provide a critical review of one of the most worrying aspects of the euthanasia policy and practice in Belgium-the deliberate shortening of lives of some patients without their explicit voluntary request.
Cohen-Almagor, Raphael
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Thinking fast and slow and science education [PDF]

arXiv
In recent years there has been growing evidence that even after teaching designed to address the learning difficulties dictated by literature, many physics learners fail to create the proper reasoning chains that connect the fundamental principles and lead to reasoned predictions.
arxiv  

Planning for the End of Life for People with Dementia - Part 2 [PDF]

, 2011
This publication is a discussion about additional end-of-life options which may become legally available at some time in the future, i.e., assisted death (usually called euthanasia or assisted suicide).
Colleen Cartwright
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Are Large Language Models Consistent over Value-laden Questions? [PDF]

arXiv
Large language models (LLMs) appear to bias their survey answers toward certain values. Nonetheless, some argue that LLMs are too inconsistent to simulate particular values. Are they? To answer, we first define value consistency as the similarity of answers across (1) paraphrases of one question, (2) related questions under one topic, (3) multiple ...
arxiv