The impact of suicide beliefs on support for suicide prevention and physician-assisted suicide [PDF]
BMC PsychiatryBackground In 2019, Taiwan implemented two laws with contrasting implications for suicide-related policies: the Suicide Prevention Act, which mandates government-led interventions to prevent suicide, and the Patient Right to Autonomy Act, which affirms ...
Nina Ming-Hsin Hsu +4 more
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Reconsidering dependence on life-sustaining treatment as a criterion for assisted suicide: the Italian legal unicum in comparative perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthThe legalization of Medical Assisted Voluntary Death, including assisted suicide is spreading worldwide, alongside the recognition of the centrality of the patient’s right to self-determination even in case of therapeutic desistance. In Italy Law-no. 219/
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Assessment of decisional capacity. A systematic review and analysis of instruments regarding their applicability to requests for assisted suicide [PDF]
European PsychiatryBackground Decisional capacity is an important requirement for assisted suicide, which has been legalized in an increasing number of countries. While several instruments have been developed over the past few decades to assess the capacity to consent to ...
Leonie Kupsch +4 more
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Differential treatment of individuals with mental health conditions in high-consequence decision-making: a comparison of policy on advance directives and assisted suicide in three European countries [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryWhile both assisted suicide and advance directives relate to potentially high-consequence decision-making, the procedures for assisted suicide requests and expressing preferences through an advance directive typically place such processes outside of ...
Sophie Gloeckler +2 more
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The request for assisted suicide – a challenging topic to teach in medical education. Project report on a compulsory elective course at the Aachen University Hospital [PDF]
GMS Journal for Medical EducationAim: As part of the Erasmus+ project “ELPIS”, a compulsory elective course in palliative medicine on handling wishes to die and the desire for suicide was put into place and offered for the first time at the Clinic for Palliative Medicine at RWTH Aachen ...
Scherg, Alexandra +5 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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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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