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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for patients with depression. Thought-provoking remarks [PDF]

, 2020
Euthanasia and medical assistance in dying entail daunting ethical and moral challenges, in addition to a host of medical and clinical issues, which are further complicated in cases of patients whose decision-making skills have been negatively affected ...
Bersani, G, Gulino, M, Montanari Vergallo, G, Rinaldi, Raffaella   +3 more
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Responding to “Terminal anorexia nervosa: three cases and proposed clinical characteristics”

Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022
The treatment of eating disorders raises many ethical debates given the pervasiveness with which this illness impacts individuals, especially as the length of time with the illness increases.
Rebekah A. Mack, Caroline E. Stanton
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Frozen Bodies and Future Imaginaries: Assisted Dying, Cryonics, and a Good Death

Religions, 2020
In October of 2018, Norman Hardy became the first individual to be cryopreserved after successful recourse to California’s then recently passed End of Life Options Act. This was a right not afforded to Thomas Donaldson, who in 1993 was legally denied the
Jeremy Cohen
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Causes for Conscientious Objection in Medical Aid in Dying: A Scoping Review

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023
In the light of current legislation on Medical Aid in Dying ─euthanasia and assisted suicide─ in different countries worldwide, there have been some arguments devoted to the right to conscientious objection for healthcare professionals in these specific
Rosana Triviño-Caballero, Iris Parra Jounou, Isabel Roldán Gómez, Maria Teresa Lopez de la Vieja   +3 more
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Terminal anorexia nervosa: three cases and proposed clinical characteristics

Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022
Background Most individuals with eating disorders will either recover, settle into an unrecovered but self-defined acceptable quality of life, or continue to cycle from crisis to relative stability over time.
Jennifer L. Gaudiani, Alyssa Bogetz, Joel Yager   +2 more
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Clinical Criteria for Physician Aid in Dying [PDF]

, 2016
More than 20 years ago, even before voters in Oregon had enacted the first aid in dying (AID) statute in the United States, Timothy Quill and colleagues proposed clinical criteria AID. Their proposal was carefully considered and temperate, but there were
Orentlicher, David, Physician Aid-in-Dying Clinical Criteria Committee, Pope, Thaddeus Mason, Rich, Ben A.   +3 more
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Nursing and euthanasia : a narrative review of the nursing ethics literature [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Medical Assistance in Dying, also known as euthanasia or assisted suicide, is expanding internationally. Canada is the first country to permit Nurse Practitioners to provide euthanasia.
Burgess, Michael, Chambaere, Kenneth, Greig, Madeleine, Janke, Robert, Pesut, Barbara, Storch, Janet, Thorne, Sally, Tishelman, Carol   +7 more
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Physician Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Experiences in the Netherlands

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
Physician assisted death (PAD) for patients with a psychiatric disorder is a controversial topic of increasing relevance, since a growing number of countries are allowing it.
SMP van Veen, SMP van Veen, SMP van Veen, GAM Widdershoven, ATF Beekman, N. Evans   +5 more
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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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Refusing care as a legal pathway to medical assistance in dying

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2019
Can a competent individual refuse care in order to make their natural death reasonably foreseeable in order to qualify for medical assistance in dying (MAiD)?
Jocelyn Downie, Matthew J Bowes
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