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Active Voluntary Euthanasia or Physician‐Assisted Suicide?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1997
OBJECTIVE: To find out why Dutch general practitioners (GPs) and nursing home physicians (NHPs), and patients (according to their physician) opt for active voluntary euthanasia rather than for physician‐assisted suicide, or vice‐versa.DEFINITIONS: The following definitions were used in the study: Euthanasia is the intentional termination of life, by ...
Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Jacques Th. M. van Eijk, Miel W. Ribbe, Gerrit van der Wal, Martien T Muller   +4 more
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How to Argue Against Active Euthanasia

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2000
Most arguments against active euthanasia, as do most arguments in applied ethics generally, take place within the framework of what can broadly be referred to as a modern, as opposed to an ancient, approach to moral theory. In this paper, I argue that this fact works to the disadvantage of opponents of active euthanasia, and that if there is a ...
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[Active euthanasia or better palliative therapy?].

Schmerz (Berlin, Germany), 1998
The Dutch Supreme Court ruled that in exceptional instances, physician-assisted suicide might be justifiable for patients with unbearable mental suffering but no physical illness. A recent report shows that explicit requests for physician-assisted suicide are not uncommon in psychiatric practice in the Netherlands.
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Euthanasia — again: “Letting die” is not in the patient's best interests: a case for active euthanasia

Medical Journal of Australia, 1985
Recent discussions in the Journal on the subject of euthanasia have relied on intuitive appeals to distinctions traditionally considered to be morally relevant, such as the distinction between acts and omissions (or killing and letting die), or ordinary and extraordinary means of treatment. These discussions remained inconclusive. However, the question
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Active voluntary euthanasia : a case for Victoria

2022
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Physician-Assisted Suicide and Active Euthanasia

1994
Controversy rages about physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia in the news media, the scholarly literature of medicine and bioethics, and the political arena of public referenda. In this chapter, after a brief description of cultural signs that favor moral experimentation in this area, we assess the relative merits of physician-assisted ...
Franklin G. Miller, John C. Fletcher
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[Active euthanasia].

Nederlandsch tijdschrift voor geneeskunde, 2020
B. Meyboom-de Jong
semanticscholar   +1 more source

2. The Case for Active Voluntary Euthanasia

Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1986
I want to begin by making the fundamental point that the question is not whether decisions to end human lives ought to be made but, rather, who makes these decisions, and on the basis of what principles or values. For the fact is that such decisions are already being made, and inevitably must be made, in modern hospitals.For almost any life-threatening
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Active and Passive Euthanasia in the Context of Severe Congenital Heart Disease

, 2020
A. Harahsheh, R. Sade
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[Selected legal aspects of end-of-life care : Euthanasia, palliative sedation and emergency medicine].

Medizinische Klinik - Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin, 2023
Peter Jan Chabiera, Gunnar Duttge
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