Planning for the End of Life for People with Dementia - Part 2 [PDF]
, 2011 This publication is a discussion about additional end-of-life options which may become legally available at some time in the future, i.e., assisted death (usually called euthanasia or assisted suicide).
Colleen Cartwright
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State of palliative care development in European Countries with and without legally regulated physician-assisted dying. [PDF]
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Bernheim, Jan L +3 more
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Common Law Roadmap for State Courts [PDF]
, 1997 Part I examines the development of the law legalizing passively hastening death and how this development relied significantly on distinguishing passively hastening death from actively hastening death.
Meisel, Alan
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Ethical Issues: Assisted Suicide Upheld [PDF]
, 2006 EssayThe ethical controversy invited by legally allowing physician assisted suicide is a familiar and complex one in which personal rights, states' rights, professional obligation, and the federal government's sense of global obligation to protect human ...
Fleming, David A.
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Is there a Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide? [PDF]
, 1997 In Part I, the author explains that it is the adjudication between the conflicting claims of individual liberty, personal autonomy and self-determination versus the preservation of life as a societal value that is at the core of the issue posed by ...
Bleich, J. David
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Involvement of palliative care in euthanasia practice in a context of legalized euthanasia : a population-based mortality follow-back study [PDF]
, 2017 Background: In the international debate about assisted dying, it is commonly stated that euthanasia is incompatible with palliative care. In Belgium, where euthanasia was legalized in 2002, the Federation for Palliative Care Flanders has endorsed the ...
Chambaere, Kenneth +3 more
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Survey of doctors' opinions of the legalisation of physician assisted suicide
BMC Medical Ethics, 2009 Background Assisted dying has wide support among the general population but there is evidence that those providing care for the dying may be less supportive. Senior doctors would be involved in implementing the proposed change in the law.
Rayner Lauren +3 more
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Physician Assisted Dying as an Extension of Healing [PDF]
, 2018 The role of a physician is to provide care for those who seek their assistance. Lisa Yount attributes the most ancient statement about this activity to the Hippocratic Oath.
Marinacci, Zoe I.
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The Constitutional Right to Die: Ethical Considerations [PDF]
, 1997 In this commentary, the author first looks at some ethical reasoning supporting physician-assisted dying. Second, he examines some of the lines that have been drawn between withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining treatment on the one hand, and ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Drawing a Line Between Killing and Letting Die: The Law, and Law Reform, on Medically Assisted Dying [PDF]
, 1993 Traditional medical ethics and law draw a sharp distinction between allowing a patient to die and helping her die. Withholding or withdrawing life sustaining treatment, such as by abating technological nutrition, hydration or respiration, will cause ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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