Frozen Bodies and Future Imaginaries: Assisted Dying, Cryonics, and a Good Death
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
doaj +1 more source
HOSPICE CLINICIANS’ WILLINGNESS TO BE PRESENT DURING MEDICAL AID IN DYING: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF RATIONALES [PDF]
Todd Becker +5 more
europepmc +3 more sources
Navigating End-of-Life Decisions With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Patient-Centered Perspective on the Clinical and Legal Barriers to Medical Aid in Dying. [PDF]
Marie D +3 more
europepmc +3 more sources
The "Foresty Way": My Mother's Brave Choice of Medical Aid in Dying. [PDF]
Handley MA.
europepmc +3 more sources
Terminal anorexia nervosa: three cases and proposed clinical characteristics
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 +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Physician Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Experiences in the Netherlands
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 +5 more
doaj +1 more source
CONTEXTUALIZING ATTITUDES TOWARD MEDICAL AID IN DYING IN A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF HOSPICE CLINICIANS [PDF]
Todd Becker +5 more
europepmc +3 more sources
Refusing care as a legal pathway to medical assistance in dying
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
doaj +1 more source
Background: Legally practiced assisted dying is an ethically complex area in need of empirical and conceptual work. International research suggests that providing assisted dying may be experienced as rewarding and meaningful but also emotionally and ...
Gitte Koksvik
doaj +1 more source
Ars Moriendi. Ethical Challenges of the Ultimate Realities of Life
The aim of this issue of Ethics in Progress is to provide a provisional, open-ended view on the ultimate realities of life and the ethical challenges they pose in medical, sociological, and existential contexts.
Sara Sgarlata +2 more
doaj +1 more source

