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Passive euthanasia in palliative care

British Journal of Nursing, 1992
Passive euthanasia is invariably practised in palliative care. This article aims to address the legal, moral and ethical implications of not hydrating dying patients and presents the results of a questionnaire assessing doctors' attitudes.
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Distinguishing Between Active and Passive Euthanasia

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1986
The standard ways of distinguishing between active and passive euthanasia, act versus omission, and removal of ordinary versus removal of extraordinary care, do not have any clear moral significance. We have used particular aspects of the physician-patient relationship to make a morally significant distinction between active and passive euthanasia ...
B, Gert, C M, Culver
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Passive euthanasia.

Nursing ethics, 2006
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EUTHANASIA AND THE ACTIVE‐PASSIVE DISTINCTION

Bioethics, 1987
KIE: The author examines various claimed differences between active and passive euthanasia and, if there are differences, whether they are morally significant. He refutes arguments based on acting vs. not acting, intention, double effect, cause of death, and natural law theory.
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A Critical Inquiry on Arguments over Active and Passive Euthanasia

Journal in Humanities, 2023
D. Chang
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Abrams on Active and Passive Euthanasia

Philosophy, 1980
In her article 'Active and Passive Euthanasia' (Philosophy 53, No. 204, April I978) Natalie Abrams argues that active euthanasia is preferable to passive euthanasia on the basis of a moral difference between acting and refraining in 'positive' cases where the outcome is desirable for the victim.
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Passive euthanasia.

Archives of internal medicine, 1983
C, Sempos, R, Cooper
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Active and Passive Euthanasia in the Context of Severe Congenital Heart Disease

, 2020
Ashraf S. Harahsheh, R. Sade
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New developments in India concerning the policy of passive euthanasia.

Developing World Bioethics, 2018
Scaria Kanniyakonil
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Mental Illness, Natural Death, and Non-Voluntary Passive Euthanasia

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2016
Jukka Varelius
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