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Frozen Bodies and Future Imaginaries: Assisted Dying, Cryonics, and a Good Death

open access: yesReligions, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Terminal anorexia nervosa: three cases and proposed clinical characteristics

open access: yesJournal 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Physician Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Experiences in the Netherlands

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

CONTEXTUALIZING ATTITUDES TOWARD MEDICAL AID IN DYING IN A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF HOSPICE CLINICIANS [PDF]

open access: goldInnov Aging, 2023
Todd Becker   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Refusing care as a legal pathway to medical assistance in dying

open access: yesCanadian 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
doaj   +1 more source

Practical and ethical complexities of MAiD: Examples from Quebec [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

open access: yesWellcome Open Research, 2020
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

open access: yesEthics in Progress, 2022
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

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