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Religion and Nurses' Attitudes To Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide

Nursing Ethics, 2009
In this review of empirical studies we aimed to assess the influence of religion and world view on nurses' attitudes towards euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.
Joris Gielen, Bert Broeckaert, Stef van den Branden   +2 more
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2001
Medical professional codes have long prohibited physician involvement in assisting a patient's suicide. However, despite ethical and legal prohibitions, calls for the liberalization of this ban have grown in recent years. The medical profession should articulate its views on the arguments for and against changes in public policy and decide whether ...
L, Snyder, D P, Sulmasy
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Gastroenterology Nursing, 2003
There are many issues surrounding the end of life. One of the most controversial is physician-assisted suicide. Because nursing is intimately involved with care of patients at the end of life in a variety of settings, it is incumbent upon nurses to be well informed on this issue.
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PSYCHIATRY AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1996
The psychiatric literature on physician-assisted suicide is scant and almost universally opposed to legalization. This opposition stems from the traditional perspective of suicide as a symptom of mental illness and the tendency of psychiatrists to extend their view of suicide in the medically well to the terminally ill.
T S, Zaubler, M D, Sullivan
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Physician Assisted Suicide

The Linacre Quarterly, 1994
The term "physician assisted suicide" is an oxymoron. The education and training of a physician is directed to diagnosing and treating illnesses in an attempt to cure and save the life of his patient and to give comfort during periods of stress and bereavement.
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ALS and physician-assisted suicide

Neurology, 2016
Patients with a new diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may struggle with uncertainty about progression and the realization that they will lose key functions and how they will ultimately cope. Eventually, most lose abilities to talk, walk or transfer, swallow, and feed themselves, and are increasingly dependent on others.
Jonathan, Katz, Hiroshi, Mitsumoto
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2005
Tremendous debate surrounds the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide in the United States. Progress requires carefully mapping the relationship of this practice to termination of life-sustaining treatment, appropriate pain relief and palliative care, and euthanasia.
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CULT SUICIDE AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Psychological Reports, 2002
A greater proportion of Dr. Kevorkian's physician-assisted suicides and the Heaven's Gate cult suicides appear to be women than the general population of suicides.
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Alternatives to physician-assisted suicide

American Journal of Otolaryngology, 1995
Two alternatives to physician-assisted suicide are ethically supported and legally permitted by American law. They are proper pain management and the forgoing of life-sustaining treatment. Correct understanding of pain management in the context of the dying patient shows that it is always medically possible, and, assuming that the proper decision-maker
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A Debate on Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychiatric Services, 1998
Dr. Hartmann: This debate is a small part of a large continuing American and international debate on physician-assisted suicide. I will argue that physician-assisted suicide should be legal, and Dr. Meyerson will argue that it should not. The state of Oregon now has a law called the Death With Dignity Act.
L, Hartmann, A, Meyerson
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