What passive euthanasia is [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2020 Background Euthanasia can be thought of as being either active or passive; but the precise definition of “passive euthanasia” is not always clear. Though all passive euthanasia involves the withholding of life-sustaining treatment, there would appear to ...
Iain Brassington
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Perception and Attitude towards Passive Euthanasia among Doctors in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Northeast India: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023 Introduction: The medical fraternity now has more control over the processes of life and death due to advances in medical technology and equipment.
RS Devandiran +3 more
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Decision-making process regarding passive euthanasia: Theory of planned behavior framework. [PDF]
Nurs EthicsBackground Nurses have an essential role in caring for end-of-life patients. Nevertheless, the nurse’s involvement in the passive euthanasia decision-making process is insufficient and lower than expected.
Tsemach R, Aharon AA.
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Comparison of attitudes towards five end-of-life care interventions (active pain control, withdrawal of futile life-sustaining treatment, passive euthanasia, active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide): a multicentred cross-sectional survey of Korean patients with cancer, their family caregivers, physicians and the general Korean population [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2018 Objectives This study determined attitudes of four groups—Korean patients with cancer, their family caregivers, physicians and the general Korean population—towards five critical end-of-life (EOL) interventions—active pain control, withdrawal of futile ...
Kyoung-Nam Kim +17 more
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J Med Ethics, 2005 The idea of passive euthanasia has recently been attacked in a particularly clear and explicit way by an “Ethics Task Force” established by the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) in February 2001. It claims that the expression “passive euthanasia” is a contradiction in terms and hence that there can be no such thing.
Garrard E, Wilkinson S.
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Active and Passive Euthanasia: Current Opinion of Mexican Medical Students. [PDF]
Cureus, 2018 Background: The idea to accelerate the process of death in a terminally ill patient is an issue that has polarized societies since ancient times. The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the opinion of medical students from Nuevo Leon, Mexico,
Gutierrez Castillo A +1 more
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The right to refuse medical treatment and passive euthanasia [PDF]
Glasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine, 2020 Having in mind the obligation of a physician, as stipulated in the Law on Patients' Rights, to respect the will of the patient even when the will is directed toward the refusal of life-sustaining medical treatment, as well as the misdemeanor liability of
Đurđević Tijana
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Passive euthanasia in India: a critique
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2016 Given its preoccupation with the doctor's agency in administering euthanasia, the legal discourse on euthanasia in India has neglected the moral relevance of the patient's suffering in determining the legitimate types of euthanasia. In this paper, I begin by explicating the condition for the possibility of euthanasia in terms of the following moral ...
Rohini Shukla
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Eduvest - Journal Of Universal Studies, 2023 Euthanasia is an act of intentionally not doing something aimed at prolonging someone's life or intentionally doing something to shorten or also end the life of a patient which is carried out to hasten his death, while enabling a good death without ...
Dian Andriani Ratna Dewi +2 more
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