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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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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 +2 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 +5 more
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Trends in Medical Aid in Dying in Oregon and Washington [PDF]
JAMA Network Open, 2019 The combined 28 years of data of medical aid in dying (MAID) between Oregon (OR) and Washington (WA) are the most comprehensive in North America. No reports to date have compared MAID use in different US states.To evaluate and compare patterns of MAID use between the states with the longest-running US death with dignity programs.A retrospective ...
Rabadi, Luai Al +7 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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Wellcome 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
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Clinical Criteria for Physician Aid in Dying
, 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
Pope, Thaddeus Mason +3 more
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Ars Moriendi. Ethical Challenges of the Ultimate Realities of Life
Ethics 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
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The Changing Legal Climate for Physician Aid in Dying [PDF]
, 2014 While once widely rejected as a health care option, physician aid in dying is receiving increased recognition as a response to the suffering of patients at the end of life. With aid in dying, a physician writes a prescription for a life-ending medication
Mason, Thaddeus +2 more
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