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A role for doctors in assisted dying? An analysis of legal regulations and medical professional positions in six European countries [PDF]

, 2008
An extensive debate about assisted suicide and euthanasia has been taking place in westernized countries during the last twenty years. Traditionally, the medical profession has maintained a clear distance from euthanasia and assisted suicide, but this ...
Bosshard, G., Broeckaert, B., Clark, D., Gordijn, B., Materstvedt, L.J., Müller-Busc, C.   +5 more
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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. [PDF]

, 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.
Bolliger, E., Borasio, G.D., Borrat-Besson, C., Maurer, J., Vilpert, S.   +4 more
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Nurse Prescribers and legalising assisted suicide in the UK [PDF]

, 2016
Should assisted suicide be legalised? This is a topic of debate in the UK once again. The House of Lords and the Judiciary indicate that legislation must be enacted by the Government to make assisted suicide a reality.
Gagan, Mark, Hartwell, Matthew
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Analysis and Evaluation of Explainable Artificial Intelligence on Suicide Risk Assessment [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
This study investigates the effectiveness of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques in predicting suicide risks and identifying the dominant causes for such behaviours. Data augmentation techniques and ML models are utilized to predict the associated risk. Furthermore, SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and correlation analysis are used
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Suicide disparities across urban and suburban areas in the U.S.: A comparative assessment of socio-environmental factors using a data-driven predictive approach [PDF]

, 2020
Disparity in suicide rates between urban and suburban/rural areas is growing, with rural areas typically witnessing higher suicide rates in the U.S. However, previous studies often ignored the effect of socio-environmental factors on the suicide rates and its regional disparity.
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Artificial Intelligence for Suicide Assessment using Audiovisual Cues: A Review [PDF]

, 2022
Death by suicide is the seventh leading death cause worldwide. The recent advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically AI applications in image and voice processing, has created a promising opportunity to revolutionize suicide risk assessment.
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Old age rational suicide [PDF]

, 2017
In the societal debate surrounding voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, there is a concern that older people will be left exposed to any legislation, subject to either faint suggestion or outright coercion from familial or professional ...
Richards, Naomi
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ChatGPT for Suicide Risk Assessment on Social Media: Quantitative Evaluation of Model Performance, Potentials and Limitations [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
This paper presents a novel framework for quantitatively evaluating the interactive ChatGPT model in the context of suicidality assessment from social media posts, utilizing the University of Maryland Reddit suicidality dataset. We conduct a technical evaluation of ChatGPT's performance on this task using Zero-Shot and Few-Shot experiments and compare ...
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Physician-assisted suicide: a review of the literature concerning practical and clinical implications for UK doctors [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the UK recently made significant progress in the British House of Lords and will be reintroduced in the future.
A Kugaya, A Sommerville, AJ Bharucha, AJ Ramirez, AL Back, B Rosenfeld, BD Onwuteaka-Philipsen, BD Onwuteaka-Philipsen, BJ Kelly, BS Fogel, C Seale, C Thompson, DA Whippen, DE Meier, DE Meier, DE Meier, DW Kissane, DW Kissane, E Tiernan, EJ Emanuel, EJ Emanuel, EJ Emanuel, FT Varghese, G Valliant, GE Dickinson, GO Gabbard, GO Gabbard, GO Gabbard, H Hendin, H Hendin, H Hendin, H Hendin, H Pessin, HAM Meyer, HM Chochinov, HM Chochinov, House of Lords Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, I Haverkate, J Georges, J Hyde, J Roberts, JG Rabkin, JG Rabkin, JH Groenewoud, JH Groenewoud, JT Maltsberger, JV Lavery, K Foley, K Mystakidou, K Naudts, KE Rosenfeld, KG Wilson, L Bowers, L Ganzini, L Ganzini, L Ganzini, L Ganzini, L Ganzini, L Ganzini, L Ganzini, L Thomas, Lords House of, LR Slome, M Leidig, M Lloyd-Williams, MA Achille, MA Annunziata, MA Branthwaite, Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks, MC Comby, ME Suarez-Almazor, ML van der Lee, MT Muller, MV McDonald, NG Hamilton, NG Hamilton, NG Hamilton, P Wesley, PB Bascom, PJ van der Maas, PJ van der Maas, PR Muskin, R Stiefel, RA Schoevers, RJ Kohlwes, RJD George, RK Portenoy, S Block, S Freud, S Ransom, SC Hooper, SD Block, SD Block, SD Passik, SH Dinwiddie, SK Dobscha, SM Albert, ST Cohen, SW Tolle, TE Quill, TE Quill, TE Quill, TS Zaubler, W Breitbart, W Breitbart, Y Conwell   +105 more
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Robin: A Novel Online Suicidal Text Corpus of Substantial Breadth and Scale [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Suicide is a major public health crisis. With more than 20,000,000 suicide attempts each year, the early detection of suicidal intent has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Traditional mental health screening methods are time-consuming, costly, and often inaccessible to disadvantaged populations; online detection of suicidal intent ...
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