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Attitudes toward the Legalization of Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide in South Korea: A Cross-Sectional Survey [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Young Ho Yun, Jin-Ah Sim
exaly   +2 more sources

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
core   +4 more sources

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., Crowley, Patrick, Doran, Kieran, O'Caoimh, Rónán, O\u27Caoimh, Rónán   +4 more
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“I lost so much more than my partner” – Bereaved partners’ grief experiences following suicide or physician-assisted dying in case of a mental disorder

BMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background There is a lack of existing research on grief following the intentional death of people suffering from a mental disorder. Our study aims to provide insight into grief experiences and social reactions of bereaved persons who lost their life ...
M. C. Snijdewind, J. de Keijser, G. Casteelen, P. A. Boelen, G. E. Smid   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Physician-assisted suicide: a review of the literature concerning practical and clinical implications for UK doctors

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
doaj   +1 more source

“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, Christian Bolliger, Jean-Daniel Strub   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Ibiyemi, Sheriff Olasunkanmi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advice and care for patients who die by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking is not assisted suicide

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
doaj   +1 more source

A Question of Mercy

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source