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Dutch Nurses? Attitudes Towards Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

, 2008
This article presents the attitudes of nurses towards three issues concerning their role in euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 1509 nurses who were employed in hospitals, home care organizations and ...
van Wijmen, Frans, van Bruchem-van de Scheur, Ada, van der Arend, Arie, ter Meulen, Ruud, Abu-Saad, Huda Huijer   +4 more
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“Evil is Real and Attitude is Everything”: Applying Shattered Assumptions Theory to Worldview Changes Following Wrongful Conviction

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wrongful convictions continue to occur at high rates. Research has revealed that negative posttraumatic cognitive changes are a risk factor for the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder, yet little research has examined whether exonerees experience posttraumatic cognitive changes, such as changes to their worldview. Thus,
Kathryn A. Thomas, Madeline R. Stenersen, Lily Hoerner, Chloe Kaminsky   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Facts, Figures and Fancies With Special Regard to Old Age

, 1998
The objective of this paper is to describe the ethics and incidence of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) with special regard to old age.
Muller, Martien T., Kimsma, Gerrit K., van der Wal, Gerrit   +2 more
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Experiential Andragogy Within a Supervision‐Focused Doctoral Internship: A Collaborative Autoethnography

Counselor Education and Supervision, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This collaborative autoethnography (CAE) examined how experiential andragogy, intentionally integrated into a doctoral internship course, shaped the development of novice supervisors. Grounded in experiential learning theory, we reflect on our experiences of supervision‐of‐supervision and highlight the value of experiential approaches in ...
Sarah J. Litt, Xihe Tian, Kahyen Shin, Melissa Luke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Requesting euthanasia or assisted suicide when it is illegal: a qualitative study about relatives’ experiences of patients hospitalized in French Palliative Care Units

Palliative Care and Social Practice
Background: 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, Florence Mathieu-Nicot, Hélène Trimaille, Mathilde Giffard, Aline Chassagne   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A complex suicide by vehicle assisted ligature strangulation and wrist-cutting

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2016
Background: Complex suicide defines the type of suicide involving using more than one suicide methods to lead to death. Second method is used to escape from pain or to prevent failure of the first method. Here we present a case of unusual complex suicide
Ramazan Akçan, Ali Eren, Mahmut Şerif Yıldırım, Necmi Çekin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conflicts of Conscience: Hospice and Assisted Suicide

, 1995
Proposals to legalize assisted suicide challenge hospice's identity and integrity. In the wake of Measure 16, Oregon hospice programs must develop practical policies to balance traditional commitments not to hasten death and not to abandon patients with ...
Matthews, Pam, Campbell, Courtney S., Hare, Jan   +2 more
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Genomic Insights Into Risperidone Treatment Outcomes in Children and Adolescents: Experience From a Psychiatric Hospital Serving Rural Youth

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Risperidone is a commonly used antipsychotic for treating psychiatric illness in children and adolescents. There is a large variability in risperidone response and discontinuation rates remain high. Pharmacogenomics offers the opportunity to improve risperidone outcomes, yet studies in pediatric populations are limited.
Jack W. Staples, Shayna R. Killam, Karen E. Brown, Rachel Dalton, Elizabeth Sather, Qiang Chen, Joshua Loveland, Corbin Schwanke, Abdallah F. Elias, Kristin L. Bigos, Erica L. Woodahl   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonphysician-Assisted Suicide in Switzerland [PDF]

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2013
In general, legal responses to endof-life issues are not very different in Switzerland than in most European countries. For instance, active euthanasia (i.e., killing on request) is illegal, although it is treated as a lesser offense than murder or manslaughter.
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Is the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide Compatible With Good End-of-Life Care?

, 2009
Many have held that there is some kind of incompatibility between a commitment to good end-of-life care and the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. This opposition to physician-assisted suicide encompasses a cluster of different claims.
Gill, Michael B.
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