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Annals of Internal Medicine, 1988
Excerpt To the Editor:Elderly patients lacking the functional ability to make their own health care decisions present medical, ethical, and legal challenges for the internist.
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Excerpt To the Editor:Elderly patients lacking the functional ability to make their own health care decisions present medical, ethical, and legal challenges for the internist.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 1992
For some patients, a right to receive euthanasia will not enhance autonomy in the morally relevant sense. Even if these patients choose wisely whether to exercise their right to die, they will still be harmed by having been given it. Perhaps, then, physicians should have permission to administer voluntary euthanasia, but patients should not have a ...
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For some patients, a right to receive euthanasia will not enhance autonomy in the morally relevant sense. Even if these patients choose wisely whether to exercise their right to die, they will still be harmed by having been given it. Perhaps, then, physicians should have permission to administer voluntary euthanasia, but patients should not have a ...
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Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1988
ABSTRACTThis letter first discusses two meanings of a “right to die.” In the popular sense, the term refers to a right to refuse life‐sustaining treatment. In the strict sense, the term signifies an affirmative right to obtain death—a right to suicide.The letter then explores the legal implications of a suicide right.
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ABSTRACTThis letter first discusses two meanings of a “right to die.” In the popular sense, the term refers to a right to refuse life‐sustaining treatment. In the strict sense, the term signifies an affirmative right to obtain death—a right to suicide.The letter then explores the legal implications of a suicide right.
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Depression and the right to die
General Hospital Psychiatry, 1999There is a complex relationship between depression and the capacity to forego life-sustaining treatment. On the one hand, the courts have recognized a constitutionally protected right to die for competent persons; on the other hand, psychiatrists have tended toward the presumption of incompetence on the part of anyone who refuses lifesaving treatment ...
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[The right to live and the right to die]. [PDF]
MMW Fortschritte der Medizin, 2014 With the advance of medical science and technology, dying can be postponed now. For how long and how is the quality of life? Frequently modern medicine postpones death only, while leaving the quality of life of many patients in a questionable state.
Maramis, Willy F.
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The Right to Privacy and the Right to Die
Social Philosophy and Policy, 2000Western ethics and law have been slow to come to conclusions about the right to choose the time and manner of one's death. However, policies, practices, and legal precedents have evolved quickly in the last quarter of the twentieth century, from the forgoing of respirators to the use of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders, to the forgoing of all medical ...
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