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Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Review of the Literature and Description of a Clinical Case)

Львівський клінічний вісник, 2015
Introduction. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a slowly progressive degenerative polyetiological incurable disease of the central nervous system which causes muscle paralysis and atrophy due to the degeneration of the upper and lower motor neurons.
Nehrych T., Papish M., Shorobura M.
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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
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Social, cultural and experiential patterning of attitudes and behaviour towards assisted suicide in Switzerland: evidence from a national population-based study

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
Switzerland has the longest history of the legal practice of non-physician assisted suicide of any country. Assisted suicide is not very tightly regulated in Switzerland, and almost all assisted suicides are supported by a right-to-die organisation ...
Sarah Vilpert, Elio Bolliger, Carmen Borrat-Besson, Gian Domenico Borasio, Jürgen Maurer   +4 more
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Euthanasia: The conceptualization of the problem and important distinctions [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2013
The aim of this work is twofold. On the one hand, the intention is to provide analysis of the issue of euthanasia. On the other hand, this approach necessarily leads to a discussion toward the provision of an adequate definition of euthanasia ...
Đerić Milijana
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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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Norwegian Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Assisted Dying: A Cross-Sectional Study

Nursing: Research and Reviews, 2022
Hege Hol,1 Solfrid Vatne,1 Aud Orøy,1 Anne Marie Mork Rokstad,1,2 Øivind Opdal3 1Faculty of Health Science and Social Care, Molde University College, Molde, Norway; 2Norwegian National Centre for Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg ...
Hol H, Vatne S, Orøy A, Rokstad AMM, Opdal Ø   +4 more
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A New Way To Die

University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, 2015
A review of the recent Supreme Court decision regarding assisted-suicide.
Laura Forrest
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Characterization and Reuse of Lithium‐ion Battery Cathode Material Recovered Through a Bacterial Process

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
A sustainable bacteria‐based lithium‐ion battery cathode recycling method is optimized using engineering biology. The resulting biomineralized manganese carbonate species is found to be easily converted into an electrode material, via simple calcination.
Virginia Echavarri‐Bravo, Isolde Marsland, Mai‐Britt V. Jensen, Caroline Kirk, Louise E. Horsfall   +4 more
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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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Genetics of Response to ECT, TMS, Ketamine and Esketamine

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Treatment‐resistant mood disorders are often managed with intensive interventions that include electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), ketamine, and esketamine, but the role of genetics in clinical response to those interventions is yet to be clearly determined.
Clio E. Franklin, Murat Altinay, Kala Bailey, Mahendra T. Bhati, Brent R. Carr, Susan K. Conroy, Khurshid Khurshid, William M. McDonald, Brian J. Mickey, James W. Murrough, Sean M. Nestor, Thomas Nickl‐Jockschat, Irving M. Reti, Gerard Sanacora, Nicholas T. Trapp, Biju Viswanath, Jesse H. Wright, Peter P. Zandi, James B. Potash   +18 more
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