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Assisted suicide in Germany: a survey on requests for and current practices of assisted suicide [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground Following the constitutional court ruling in 2020, which legalized assistance in suicide in Germany under certain conditions, the practice of assisted suicide in Germany has been developing rather dynamically regarding the number of assisted ...
Sabine Sommerlatte +6 more
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Physician Assisted Suicide [PDF]
The Linacre Quarterly, 1994 The term "physician assisted suicide" is an oxymoron. The education and training of a physician is directed to diagnosing and treating illnesses in an attempt to cure and save the life of his patient and to give comfort during periods of stress and bereavement.
Millard, Charles E.
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Physician-assisted suicide: a review of the literature concerning practical and clinical implications for UK doctors [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 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.
Hicks Madelyn
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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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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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