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The case for mercy killing

Premature termination of life through medical means have been debated in moral and legal fields. While some countries have legalised euthanasia, the idea of mercy killing is still generally unacceptable.
Pek, Felicia Jia Ying
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Intimates, acquaintances or strangers? Profiling the victim–offender relationship in homicides through offenders' behavioural patterns

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims This study examined behavioural heterogeneity across three victim–offender relationship categories in a non‐Western context to determine whether specific patterns can accurately predict intimate/family, acquaintance/friend and stranger homicides.
Ruihan Chen
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“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
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New President and CEO of Children\u27s Mercy Named [PDF]

, 2018
Paul Kempinski, MS, FACHE, has been named the new President and Chief Executive Officer of Children’s Mercy, effective Nov.
Children\u27s Mercy Hospital
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Children\u27s Mercy Hospital Annual Report 2015

, 2016
Annual report for The Children\u27s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City MO, a pediatric medical center.https://scholarlyexchange.childrensmercy.org/cmh-annual-reports/1010/thumbnail ...
Children\u27s Mercy Hospital
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Children\u27s Mercy Hospital Annual Report 2010

, 2011
Annual report for The Children\u27s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City MO, a pediatric medical center.https://scholarlyexchange.childrensmercy.org/cmh-annual-reports/1004/thumbnail ...
Children\u27s Mercy Hospital
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City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
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Moral Permissibility of Euthanasia- A Bangladesh Context

Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics
Survival is obviously important, but sometimes, under particular circumstances, life can become miserable, difficult, or intolerable; at that point, survival can seem like a punishment or misfortune.
Nilufa Yasmin
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Children\u27s Mercy Hospital Annual Report 2007

, 2008
Annual report for The Children\u27s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City MO, a pediatric medical center.https://scholarlyexchange.childrensmercy.org/cmh-annual-reports/1001/thumbnail ...
Children\u27s Mercy Hospital
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