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A LICENCE TO KILL PVS PATIENTS
Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law, 2009 Euthanasia remains the subject of ongoing intense debate worldwide. The practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from incurable conditions or diseases indeed brings together with it a lot of debate and medical dilemma.
Farah Salwani Muda@Ismail +1 more
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Family physicians’ perspective on voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: a cross-sectional study
Journal of International Medical Research, 2020 Objective We aimed to determine how often patients who choose voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) are accompanied by Swiss family physicians, how physicians classify this process, and physicians’ attitudes and professional stance toward VSED.
Sabrina Stängle +4 more
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arXiv, 2019 In this paper we introduce a new notion of passivity which we call Krasovskii's passivity and provide a sufficient condition for a system to be Krasovskii's passive. Based on this condition, we investigate classes of port-Hamiltonian and gradient systems which are Krasovskii's passive.
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An Ethical Review of Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2017 Background: In the majority of countries, active direct euthanasia is a forbidden way of the deprivation of the patients’ life, while its passive form is commonly accepted.
Božidar BANOVIĆ +2 more
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What Is a Good Death in South Asia? A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction To deliver palliative care, it is important to understand what a “good death” means to the relevant people. Such studies have mostly occurred in high‐income settings that usually live by Western ideals. What matters to people is likely to vary across different regions of the world, influenced by multiple factors. Although there is
Lihini Wijeyaratne +5 more
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Kairós Gerontologia, 2014 75 opinions from elderly people of low socioeconomic classes living in a specific community were investigated, about whether they would allow euthanasia to be performed on family members. 77.3% wouldn't perform euthanasia.
Diego Fraga Rezende +3 more
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Are Large Language Models Consistent over Value-laden Questions? [PDF]
arXivLarge 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 ...
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Recent Advances in Analysis and Design of Cyber-physical Systems using Passivity Indices [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Analysis and resilient design of Cyber-physical Systems have greatly benefited from energy based concepts of passivity and dissipativity. Recently, there has been much research devoted to the use of passivity indices in different components of Cyber-physical systems. Passivity indices are measures of passivity, indicating how passive a system is or how
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Certainties and the Bedrock of Moral Reasoning: Three Ways the Spade Turns
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we identify and explain three kinds of bedrock in moral thought. The term “bedrock,” as introduced by Wittgenstein in §217 of the Philosophical Investigations, stands for the end of a chain of reasoning. We affirm that some chains of moral reasoning do indeed end with certainty.
Konstantin Deininger, Herwig Grimm
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Photochemistry and Photobiology, EarlyView.Circadian disruption is a potential carcinogen, but the impact of environmental carcinogens on circadian rhythms is unclear. Here we evaluated the impact of chronic UVB exposure with environmental‐ and genetic‐induced circadian disruption on mouse rhythmic locomotor activity and clock gene expression. Created in BioRender. Cone, S.
Adam J. Greer +6 more
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