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An argument for physician-assisted suicide and against euthanasia [PDF]

, 2015
The article opens with the hypothesis that the default position that should guide healthcare providers when treating patients at the end-of-life is that patients opt for life. In the absence of an explicit request to die, we may assume that patients wish
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Examining Medical Student Attitudes Towards Physician-Assisted Suicide

McGill Journal of Medicine, 2020
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is a highly debated issue. The Sue Rodriguez case highlighted the importance and the contentious nature of this issue in our society today.
Kevin Gabel, Saul Miller, Jeffrey So, Andrew Suess   +3 more
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An Advance Request: The Accessibility of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for Patients Who Loose Decision-Making Capacity

University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, 2021
Since the legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada in 2016, there have been discussions regarding the extension of this service to patients who lose decision-making capacity but have made a prior advance request for physician-assisted
Natasha Harris
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Do mental or somatic diagnoses influence emotional response and perception of physician-assisted suicide in Germany? A vignette-based experiment

BMC Medical Ethics
Background Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is increasingly being legalized in a growing number of countries and is the focus of societal and ethical debates.
Laura Hofmann, Birgit Wagner
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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Sweetness in Bitterness

Interdisciplinary Journal on Law, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023
In this paper, a review of the concepts of euthanasia and assisted suicide is conducted. It begins by describing the historical trends from the beginning of the 20th century to the modern-day view.
Victoria Ajibola Adeleke
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Introductory Remarks of Panel II: Legal, Medical, and Ethical Considerations for the Future of Physician-Assisted Suicice Symposium: Physician-Assusted Suicide: Legal Rights in Life and Death: Introductory Remarks of Panel II: Legal, Medicial, and Ethical Considerations for the Future of Physician-Assisted Suicide [PDF]

, 1996
Once the Supreme Court issues it decision in the cases of Quill v. Vacco1 and Compassion in Dying v. Washington2 regarding the constitutionality of outlawing physician-assisted suicide for competent and terminally ill persons, the tension surrounding ...
Hernandez, Tanya K.
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Nursing and euthanasia : a narrative review of the nursing ethics literature [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Medical Assistance in Dying, also known as euthanasia or assisted suicide, is expanding internationally. Canada is the first country to permit Nurse Practitioners to provide euthanasia.
Burgess, Michael, Chambaere, Kenneth, Greig, Madeleine, Janke, Robert, Pesut, Barbara, Storch, Janet, Thorne, Sally, Tishelman, Carol   +7 more
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The right to die: Perspectives of mental health professionals in malta

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction In their professional work, mental health professionals are continually working with individuals in distress, who may express a wish to end their lives.
G.J. Ellul
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FDA Regulation and Patient Assisted Suicides [PDF]

, 2012
There are an increasing number of Americans who believe that the marginal benefit of surviving a few extra months is not worth the cost of suffering the pain, physical and/or mental deterioration, or increased dependency they would experience during that
Weiss, David S.
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Escape from New York: Analyzing the State\u27s Relative Interests in Proscribing the Withdrawal of Life Support and Physician-Assisted Suicide [PDF]

, 2003
This Note argues that states cannot consistently prohibit physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients while they continue to allow the withdrawal of life support for even non-terminal patients.
Miller, Colin
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