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Requesting euthanasia or assisted suicide when it is illegal: a qualitative study about relatives’ experiences of patients hospitalized in French Palliative Care Units [PDF]
Palliative Care and Social PracticeBackground: In countries where euthanasia and assisted suicide are not allowed, such as France, little is known about how a request for euthanasia and/or assisted suicide, expressed by an end-of-life patient, impacts their relatives.
Camille De Cock +4 more
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Suicide assistance in Germany: A protocol for a multi-perspective qualitative study to explore the current practice. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundSuicide assistance is as a complex process comprising a series of stages, ranging from initial consultations with patients about end-of-life options to counselling bereaved family members.
Sven Schwabe +3 more
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023 BACKGROUND: Older adults are at risk of assisted and self-initiated suicide. The links between prior attempts and assisted suicide in the elderly have not been investigated.
Nathalie Dieudonné Rahm, Sophie Pautex
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023 AIMS OF THE STUDY: The legalisation of assisted suicide is one of the most debated topics in the field of medical ethics worldwide. In countries in which assisted suicide is not legal, public discussions about its approval also encompass considerations ...
Giacomo Montagna +4 more
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On contemporary aspects of assisted suicide at plato
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Usually, Plato is not considered a philosopher that comprehensively treated the matter of suicide. By studying Plato’s work (especially Crito, Phaedo, the Republic and the Laws), we observe that Plato was concerned with the problem of ...
A. Voinov
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Suicide and Assisted Suicide in Criminal Law and Canon Law [PDF]
Societas et Iurisprudentia, 2021 The paper deals with the issue of suicide and assisted suicide, especially its ethical, criminal law and canon law evaluation. In the first chapter, the author explains what needs to be perceived under these terms and how they differ from euthanasia ...
Štefan Zeman
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Palliative Medicine Reports, 2023 Background: Due to a decision by the German Federal Constitutional Court of February 26, 2020, it is currently possible in Germany to avail of assisted suicide. The ruling has given rise to a controversial debate within the professional community as well
Lena D?rmann +3 more
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 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 ...
Sarah Vilpert +4 more
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ICU health care workers opinion on physician-assisted-suicide and euthanasia: a French survey
Annals of Intensive Care, 2023 Background In France, physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia are not legal but are still debated. French intensive care unit (ICU) health care workers (HCWs) have an insider’s perspective on the global quality of the patient’s end-of-life, whether it ...
Mathieu Acquier +6 more
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Types of suicide pacts: a comparative analysis using the National Violent Death Reporting System
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 IntroductionSuicide pacts are lethal acts of violence involving multiple decedents. No study has ever compared suicide pact types using a large sample, limiting our understanding of this rare but serious phenomenon. The objective of the current study was
Kawon Victoria Kim +16 more
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