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A qualitative study on continuous deep sedation until death as an alternative to assisted suicide in Switzerland

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background According to the European Association for Palliative Care, decisions regarding palliative sedation should not be made in response to requests for assisted dying, such as euthanasia or assisted suicide.
Martyna Tomczyk, Nathalie Dieudonné-Rahm, Ralf J. Jox   +2 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

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, Elio Bolliger, Carmen Borrat-Besson, Gian Domenico Borasio, Jürgen Maurer   +4 more
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Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background There has been no in-depth research of public attitudes on withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide and physician assisted suicide in Croatia.
Ana Borovecki, Marko Curkovic, Krunoslav Nikodem, Stjepan Oreskovic, Milivoj Novak, Filip Rubic, Jurica Vukovic, Diana Spoljar, Bert Gordijn, Chris Gastmans   +9 more
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When is hastened death considered suicide? A systematically conducted literature review about palliative care professionals’ experiences where assisted dying is legal

BMC Palliative Care, 2019
Background Laws allowing assisted suicide and euthanasia have been implemented in many locations around the world but some individuals suffering with terminal illness receiving palliative care services are hastening death or die by suicide without ...
Sheri Mila Gerson, Amanda Bingley, Nancy Preston, Anne Grinyer   +3 more
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Increase in assisted suicide in Switzerland: did the socioeconomic predictors change? Results from the Swiss National Cohort

BMJ Open, 2018
Objective To determine whether the strong increase in assisted suicides in Switzerland since 2008 is linked to a shift in the socioeconomic factors associated with assisted suicide and its related diagnoses.Methods In a population-based longitudinal ...
Marcel Zwahlen, Nicole Steck, Christoph Junker   +2 more
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Attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in Spanish university students

Revista Bioética, 2019
Attitudes toward physician-assisted death among medical students differ between populations. The aim of this study was to explore attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide among Spanish university students.
María Sol Rodríguez-Calvo, José Luis Soto, Isabel María Martínez-Silva, Fernando Vázquez-Portomeñe, José Ignacio Muñoz-Barús   +4 more
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Perspectives of Major World Religions regarding Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Comparative Analysis

Journal of religion and health, 2022
Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EPAS) are important contemporary societal issues and religious faiths offer valuable insights into any discussion on this topic.
G. Grove, M. Lovell, M. Best
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Investigating the relationship between euthanasia and/or assisted suicide and rates of non-assisted suicide: systematic review

BJPsych Open, 2022
Background Euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) are practices that aim to alleviate the suffering of people with life-limiting illnesses, but are controversial.
A. Doherty, Caitlyn J. Axe, D. Jones
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Psychoanalytic understanding of the request for assisted suicide

The International journal of psycho-analysis, 2022
The legalisation of assisted dying, including euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, is increasing in countries across the world and constitutes a key contemporary debate, reflecting social changes, in which two views of suicide conflict; that (1 ...
S. Briggs, R. Lindner, M. Goldblatt, N. Kapusta, M. Teising   +4 more
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An autonomy-based approach to assisted suicide: a way to avoid the expressivist objection against assisted dying laws

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2022
In several jurisdictions, irremediable suffering from a medical condition is a legal requirement for access to assisted dying. According to the expressivist objection, allowing assisted dying for a specific group of persons, such as those with ...
E. Braun
semanticscholar   +1 more source