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Physician-Assisted Suicide and Psychiatric Illness.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2018
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Psychiatric Illness In exceptional cases, suicide might be considered a rational choice of a competent person, even in the presence of psychiatric illness.
J. Vandenberghe
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Ethics and the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2018
TO THE EDITOR: Because some states have legalized PAS, we as physicians must be careful to uphold the principles of medicine (to cure sometimes, provide healing always, and harm never) while at the same time balance these unchangeable truths with ...
Banu E Symington
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The Slippery Slope of Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2018
TO THE EDITOR: I read Kussmaul's editorial (1) with great interest. After more than 25 years of practice in hematologic oncology and bone marrow transplantation at an academic medical center, reading an editorial that clearly articulates the sanctity-of ...
G. Schiller
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Heaven, hell, and attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide

Journal of Health Psychology, 2018
Using data from the 2007 Baylor Religion Survey, I evaluate whether beliefs in heaven and hell are associated with attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide.
Shane Sharp
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Euthanasia and physician‐assisted suicide: focus on the data

Medical Journal of Australia, 2017
1 MBritain and the United States began in the late 19th century. Legislation was periodically proposed only to be defeated until, in 1942, Switzerland decriminalised assistance in suicide for cases when there were no “selfish motives”.
E. Emanuel
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Physician assisted suicide and clinical vulnerability: a slippery slope.

Clinica Terapeutica, 2016
AIMS The Belgian case of a 24 years' woman affected by resistant depression, who obtained the legal right to assisted suicide rehearsed ethical issues. From the famous Chabot case of the Dutch court in 1994, accumulating legal evidence indicates that the
F. Monacelli, M. Martini, P. Odetti, R. Ciliberti   +3 more
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