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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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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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“Swiss physicians’ attitudes to assisted suicide”
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2015 PRINCIPLES: In Switzerland, assisted suicide is legal as long as it does not involve self-serving motives. Physician-assisted suicide is regulated by specific guidelines issued by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS).
Susanne Brauer +2 more
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Grief After Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide.
Crisis, 2020 Background: Several countries have regulated euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Research has looked at the experiences of patients, family, and professionals. However, little is known of the effects on bereaved individuals.
K. Andriessen +4 more
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Attitudes of university hospital staff towards in-house assisted suicide.
PLoS ONE, 2022 ObjectiveTo investigate staff attitudes toward assisted suicide in the hospital setting in Switzerland.DesignCross-sectional study.SettingTwo University Hospitals in French speaking regions of Switzerland.Participants13'834 health care professionals ...
Claudia Gamondi +5 more
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Suicide assisted by right-to-die associations: a population based cohort study.
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2014 BACKGROUND In Switzerland, assisted suicide is legal but there is concern that vulnerable or disadvantaged groups are more likely to die in this way than other people. We examined socio-economic factors associated with assisted suicide.
Nicole Steck +5 more
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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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Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in Patients With Multiple Geriatric Syndromes
JAMA Internal Medicine, 2020 Key Points Question What are the patient characteristics and circumstances associated with the request for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) in cases of multiple geriatric syndromes as reported in the case summaries of the Dutch Regional ...
Vera E van den Berg +7 more
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2017 Background Care-dependency constitutes an important issue with regard to the approval of end-of-life decisions, yet attitudes towards assisted suicide and euthanasia are understudied among care-dependent older adults.
Erwin Stolz +3 more
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