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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

open access: yesBMC 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assisted suicide is a critical problem in psychiatry

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction Active euthanasia is currently permitted in Netherlands, Belgium, Colombia, Luxembourg, Canada, Australia and India. Assisted suicide is allowed in Switzerland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, as well as in the states of Washington, Oregon ...
P. Liubov
doaj   +1 more source

Assisted suicide for depression [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 1994
EDITOR, - It is important to learn the appropriate lesson from Alan D Ogilvie and S G Potts's editorial concerning Dr Boudewijn Chabot's assistance in the suicide of a depressed patient.1 Euthanasia can be compared to psychosurgery, since it is an inherently destructive medical intervention that is always regrettable and, while occasionally warranted ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Contemporary Debate Over Physician-Assisted Suicide

open access: yes, 2001
Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues? offers a detailed discussion of recent supreme court rulings that have had an impact on the contemporary debate in the United States and elsewhere over physician-assisted suicide.
De Ville, Kenneth A.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide by Alexandre Baril

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics
There is no more compelling a current issue than critically examining the topics of suicide prevention and assisted suicide. That has been exceptionally accomplished by Alexandre Baril in his book Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to ...
Juergen Dankwort
doaj   +1 more source

Euthanasia and assisted suicide: a Christian ethical perspective

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2002
This article introduces and compares the contrasting views of two well-known theologians, Gilbert Meilaender and Harry Kuitert, on euthanasia and medically assisted suicide.
E. de Villiers
doaj   +1 more source

More on assisted suicide [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Medical Association Journal, 2012
I agree with Drs. Flegel and Fletcher that we must speak up now regarding assisted suicide and euthanasia.[1][1] On July 15, 2012, in the Carter decision, a provincial judge rejected the Supreme Court’s Rodriguez precedent and purported to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Faith and Reason and Physician-Assisted Suicide

open access: yes, 1998
Aquinas's conception of the relationship of faith and reason calls into question the arguments and some of the conclusions advanced in contributions to the debate on physician-assisted suicide by David Thomasma and H. Tristram Engelhardt.
Kaczor, Christopher
core   +1 more source

Conscience, Referral, and Physician Assisted Suicide

open access: yes, 1993
Practices such as physician assisted suicide, even if legal, engender a range of moral conflicts to which many are oblivious. A recent proposal for physician assisted suicide provides an example by calling upon physicians opposed to suicide to refer ...
Wildes, Kevin Wm., Wildes, Kevin William
core   +1 more source

Cognitive and Neuroimaging Divergence Between Juvenile and Adult FUS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive motor neuron degeneration. Fused in sarcoma (FUS)‐associated juvenile ALS (jALS) represents a distinct and aggressive subgroup with rapid deterioration and poor prognosis.
Alexandra V. Jürs   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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