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Analysing restrictive and liberal approaches towards assisted suicide and euthanasia [PDF]
, 2010 MPhil (Laws)The ‘end of life’ issue in relation to assisted suicide and euthanasia is one of our prime concerns and a most widely discussed phenomenon not only in academic and official literature, but also in day-to-day life.
Matker, Prema S
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BMC Family Practice, 2006 Background A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the UK recently made significant progress in the British House of Lords and will be reintroduced in the future.
Hicks Madelyn
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“Swiss physicians’ attitudes to assisted suicide”
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2015 PRINCIPLES: In Switzerland, assisted suicide is legal as long as it does not involve self-serving motives. Physician-assisted suicide is regulated by specific guidelines issued by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS).
Susanne Brauer +2 more
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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: Attitudes of Irish consultant physicians [PDF]
, 2021 Introduction: This study examines the attitudes of Irish consultant physicians towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Methods: Data were collected between May and October 2016.
Crowley, P. +4 more
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Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) and an Argument for Morally Permissible Euthanasia
Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, 2021 The issues and questions generated by euthanasia have informed divergent views among scholars. Some uphold the sanctity of human life and oppose euthanasia regardless of the situation.
Macaulay-Adeyelure C. Olawunmi +1 more
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BMC Medicine, 2017 Background A competent patient has the right to refuse foods and fluids even if the patient will die. The exercise of this right, known as voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), is sometimes proposed as an alternative to physician assisted ...
Andrew McGee, Franklin G. Miller
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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
Annals of Medicine, 1999 In the Netherlands there are about 9700 explicit requests for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (EAS) each year, of which approximately 3600 are granted. Other countries have criticized the Dutch policy concerning EAS. It has been suggested that palliative care in the Netherlands is not adequate and that euthanasia is often requested by patients
N B, Swarte, A P, Heintz
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Voices in Bioethics, 2015 The right-to-die debate was cast into the spotlight on November 1, 2014, when Brittany Maynard, a beautiful young California woman, took her own life by a doctor- prescribed lethal dose.
Mahala Yates Stripling
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Gillian Bennett & Physician-Assisted Suicide
Voices in Bioethics, 2014 “I want out before the day when I can no longer assess my situation,” wrote Gillian Bennett, a Vancouver woman, in an open letter to be published after her death. “[I] will be physically alive but there will be no one inside.” Addressing the dementia she
Joshua Preston
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BMJ, 1998 Ed Robert F Weir Indiana University Press, £24.95, pp 266 ISBN 0 253 33282 6 During the first Dutch study into euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions (for the Remmelink committee in 1991), we asked doctors involved in euthanasia cases why they chose euthanasia instead of assisted suicide and vice versa.
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