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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2023 The Pretoria High Court is considering whether to recognise a right to physician-assisted death. This is a right to request a physician to administer a lethal prescription which a terminally ill patient can use to end their lives or to be allowed to ...
Ntokozo Mnyandu
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The Rhetoric of Neutrality and the Philosophers’ Brief: A Critique of the Amicus Brief of Six Moral Philosophers in Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill [PDF]
, 1998 Church discusses the amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in the companion assisted suicide cases of Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill, in which six philosophers offer their views.
Church, Richard
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PLoS ONE, 2015 BackgroundEuthanasia remains a controversial topic in both public discourses and legislation. Although some determinants of acceptance of euthanasia and physician-assisted death have been identified in previous studies, there is still a shortage of ...
Erwin Stolz +5 more
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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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BMJ OpenObjective This study aimed to analyse the attitudes of physicians working in Estonia towards the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide, their willingness to perform these practices and the association of these factors with a range of physician ...
Aime Keis +4 more
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GMS Journal for Medical Education, 2016 Objectives: In November 2015, the German Federal Parliament voted on a new legal regulation regarding assisted suicide. It was decided to amend the German Criminal Code so that any “regular, repetitive offer” (even on a non-profit basis) of assistance in
Anneser, Johanna +3 more
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Practical Contours [PDF]
, 1993 This paper considers current medical and legal perspectives on patients\u27 right to assistance in dying. In highlighting the competing policy objectives that must be resolved, it examines failed legislative initiatives in Washington and California.
Dangelantonio, Anthony J.
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Assisted Suicide Heads to Colorado
Voices in Bioethics, 2017 While the outcome of our recent election cycle has represented a country with polarized viewpoints of America’s future policies, one ballot initiative has emerged as a force of consensus.
Tyler Cosmer
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Argumenty w sporze o legalizację eutanazji i wspomaganego samobójstwa. Część I
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2018 ARGUMENTS IN THE DISPUTE OVER LEGALIZING EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE – PART I The aim of this article is to present the arguments used in the debate on the legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
Bogna Wach
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End-of-life decisions in medicine : emperical studies on practice and attitudes in the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2002 The role of psychiatrists in end-of-life decision-making will be described in Chapters 2 to 4 (part II). Chapter 2 deals with the experience of Dutch psychiatrists with requests for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide made by patients under their
Groenewoud, J.H. (Hanny)
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