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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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Attitudes towards assisted suicide and euthanasia among care-dependent older adults (50+) in Austria: the role of socio-demographics, religiosity, physical illness, psychological distress, and social isolation

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, Hannes Mayerl, Peter Gasser-Steiner, Wolfgang Freidl   +3 more
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Rational suicide: The paradigm of survival

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Suicide is an intriguing act of the human being. The reasons behind the violation of an instinct for survival is far from being understood.
S. Torres
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Physicians’ experiences with euthanasia: a cross-sectional survey amongst a random sample of Dutch physicians to explore their concerns, feelings and pressure

BMC Family Practice, 2019
Background Physicians who receive a request for euthanasia or assisted suicide may experience a conflict of duties: the duty to preserve life on the one hand and the duty to relieve suffering on the other hand.
Kirsten Evenblij, H. Roeline W. Pasman, Johannes J. M. van Delden, Agnes van der Heide, Suzanne van de Vathorst, Dick L. Willems, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Time-trends in assisted and unassisted suicides completed with different methods: Swiss National Cohort

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2015
OBJECTIVE: The number of suicides assisted by right-to-die associations has increased in recent years in Switzerland. The aim of our study was to compare time trends in rates of assisted and unassisted suicide from 1991–2008.
Nicole Steck, Marcel Zwahlen, Matthias Egger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perception of Physicians Working in Chile Toward Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2022
Introduction: Assisted suicide and euthanasia are controversial issues today and have been throughout the history of humanity, mainly because there are individuals for and against them. Currently, the legalization of these practices is being discussed in
Yelson Alejandro Picón-Jaimes, Javier Esteban Orozco-Chinome, Iván David Lozada-Martínez, Sandra Mass-Ramirez, Carlos Iván Higuera-Cetina, Lina María Montaña-Gómez, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, Alexis Rafael Narvaez-Rojas   +7 more
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Physician-assisted death in psychiatric practice in the Netherlands [PDF]

, 1997
BACKGROUND: In 1994 the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that in exceptional instances, physician-assisted suicide might be justifiable for patients with unbearable mental suffering but no physical illness.
Groenewoud, J.H. (Hanny), Heide, A. (Agnes) van der, Hengeveld, M.W. (Michiel), Maas, P.J. (Paul) van der, Schudel, W.J. (Willem), Tholen, A.J., Wal, G. (Gerrit) van der   +6 more
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Against commercial‐assisted suicide

Bioethics, 2023
AbstractThe idea of commercial‐assisted suicide lives a marginal existence in the bioethical literature, despite its significant presence in popular culture. The practice of commercial‐assisted suicide (CAS) is defined as suicide assistance performed for a financial reward through a contractual agreement between a customer and a service‐provider, who ...
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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
doaj   +1 more source

The body as unwarranted life support: a new perspective on euthanasia [PDF]

, 2007
It is widely accepted in clinical ethics that removing a patient from a ventilator at the patient's request is ethically permissible. This constitutes voluntary passive euthanasia.
Shaw, D.
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