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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

open access: yesBMC 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesBMC 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”

open access: yesSwiss 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]

open access: yes, 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

open access: yesBangladesh 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
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesBMC 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

open access: yesVoices 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

open access: yesVoices 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

Physician-assisted suicide

open access: yesBMJ, 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.
openaire   +4 more sources

Voluntary active euthanasia: Is there a place for it in modern day medicine?

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 2008
This article discusses various ethical and legal concepts regarding euthanasia and includes concepts like physician assisted suicide, assisted suicide, voluntary active euthanasia, killing vs. letting die, indirect euthanasia and terminal sedation.
Gboyega A. Ogunbanjo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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