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′Euthanasia: Right to die with dignity′
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2014 Kalaivani Annadurai +2 more
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Lippincott's Case Management, 2005 The moral basis of the right to die is the right to good quality life A s this week's House of Lords report on assisted dying shows, the question of the right to die has become one of the most important in contemporary ethics.1 The case of Terri Schiavo in Florida has stimulated further debate about the issue.2 Her circumstances illustrate the fact ...
Lynn S. Muller, Dominick L. Flarey
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The right to die: Perspectives of mental health professionals in malta [PDF]
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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Swiss medical weekly, 2001 BACKGROUND AND METHODS The Swiss "Right-to-Die"-society EXIT enables assisted suicide by providing terminally ill members with a lethal dosage of barbiturates on request. This practice is tolerated by Swiss legislation.
Andreas Frei +5 more
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Brain, 2010 Medicine changes—not just in the accumulation of scientific knowledge but in the responsibility the profession has to acknowledge the expectations of society and adjust our attitudes and behaviour accordingly. Just as rigid opposition to all change is wrong-headed, so too is uncritical bending in the breeze of public opinion on matters of high ethical ...
Neil Scolding
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, 2014 This entry opens with a concise history of the right to die movement. Then it provides a conceptual framework, explaining key terms that are often utilized by those who advocate physician aid-in-dying: liberty, autonomy, dignity, respect, concern, quality of life and suffering.
R. Cohen-Almagor
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Should there be a legal right to die? [PDF]
Curr Oncol, 2010 Imagine a society in which patients are routinely euthanized—whether they want their lives to end or not—if their suffering cannot be alleviated without dulling their consciousness, eliminating their independence, or threatening their dignity.
Benatar D.
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Right to Life or Right to Die in Advanced Dementia: Physician-Assisted Dying [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Jitender Jakhar +2 more
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748 cases of suicide assisted by a Swiss right-to-die organisation
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2003 BACKGROUND AND METHODS In Switzerland, nonmedical right-to-die organisations offer instruction and personal guidance in committing suicide to members suffering from incurable diseases.
E Ulrich, W Bär
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