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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, Alicja Dłużewicz, Karolina Napiwodzka   +2 more
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Medical Aid in Dying: New Frontiers in Medicine, Law, and Culture

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2023
Medical aid in dying (MAID) has been a productive target for social scientific inquiry at the intersections of law and medicine over the past two decades. Insofar as MAID crystallizes and reflects personal and cultural understandings of key concepts such
M. Buchbinder, C. Cain
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Medical Aid in Dying: Bioethics as Sideshow [PDF]

Hastings Center Report, 2018
AbstractTwenty years ago, the passage of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act prompted vigorous debate in my bioethics classrooms; now, the issue barely generates a ripple. Instead, we focus on an issue my students' generation will confront, as illustrated by an amendment to the ODDA introduced in the last Oregon legislative session that would have ...
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The Right to Choose

Voices in Bioethics, 2021
Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash ABSTRACT With the increasing legalization of MAiD across the world, the question of whether psychiatric patients with refractory mental illness should have access to this health service is a topic of ethical ...
Laila Knio
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Euthanizing people who are 'tired of life' [PDF]

, 2017
In Belgium and the Netherlands, a debate is developing about people who express a desire to end their lives although they do not suffer from an incurable, life-threatening disease.
Cohen-Almagor, Raphael
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The power of suggestion

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019
This article examines an ethical controversy that has received relatively little attention in public debates about the legalization of medical aid-in-dying (AID): should physicians inform patients that they have the option of hastening death?
Mara Buchbinder
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Death with Dignity in Canada

Voices in Bioethics, 2022
Photo by Chris Robert on Unsplash INTRODUCTION If a terminally ill individual suffers from enduring pain and exhausts all other treatment options, upholding death with dignity through medical assistance in dying (MAID) is how physicians can ...
Anna Vargo
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Survey of Mental Health Care Providers’ Perspectives on the Everyday Ethics of Medical-Aid-in-Dying for People with a Mental Illness

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2020
Context: In most jurisdictions where medical-aid-in-dying (MAiD) is available, this option is reserved for individuals suffering from incurable physical conditions.
Marjorie Montreuil, Monique Séguin, Catherine Gros, Eric Racine   +3 more
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Exploring multiple levels of suffering and suicide prevention in an era of emerging national legislations

Frontiers in Public Health
Access to assisted dying (variously called assisted suicide, euthanasia, and medical aid/assistance in dying) is increasingly available in many countries around the world.
Mark Goldblatt, Mark Goldblatt, Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart, Sylvie Lapierre, Sylvie Lapierre, Margda Waern, Margda Waern, Reinhard Lindner   +7 more
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Medical aid in dying

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2017
Death is an inevitable reality. Throughout our lives, each of us will experience the deaths of loved ones and confront our own mortality. Given our role as healthcare providers, pharmacists frequently care for people who are dying, and we are trained to approach these patients with compassion ...
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