Moving from voluntary euthanasia to non-voluntary euthanasia: equality and compassion
, 2004 The recent Dutch law legalising active voluntary euthanasia will reignite the euthanasia debate. An illuminating method for evaluating the moral status of a practice is to follow the implications of the practice to its logical conclusion.
Mirko Bagaric (13059921) +1 more
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Ethics, Morals and Euthanasia [PDF]
, 2014 This paper discusses whether or not active voluntary euthanasia is morally permissible. The conclusion arrives at the statement that active voluntary euthanasia is morally permissible when certain precautions and requirements are met.
Kragh, Kristian +5 more
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Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Christian Bioethics: Moral Controversy in Germany
, 2003 Discussions in Germany regarding appropriate end-of-life decision-making have been heavily influenced by the liberalization of access to physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia in the Netherlands and Belgium. These discussions disclose
May, Arnd T.
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Neonatal Euthanasia Is Unsupportable: The Groningen Protocol Should Be Abandoned
, 2007 The growing support for voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) is evident in the recently approved Dutch Law on Termination of Life on Request. Indeed, the debate over legalized VAE has increased in European countries, the United States, and many other ...
Kon, Alexander A.
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Voluntary active euthanasia: Justifications and regulations
, 2020 Voluntary active euthanasia is the most controversial category ofeuthanasia, which itself causes a great amount of discussions. This thesis defendsthe position that voluntary active euthanasia should be considered morally andlegally permissible under certain circumstances in which it becomes the ?mostappropriate medical treatment?.
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Illness, Suffering and Voluntary Euthanasia
, 2007 It is often accepted that we may legitimately speak about voluntary euthanasia only in cases of persons who are suffering because they are incurably injured or have an incurable disease.
Varelius, Jukka
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Legal Developments Concerning Active Euthanasia on Request in the Netherlands
, 1987 The author describes social and legal developments in the debate over active euthanasia in the Netherlands. There, as in all of Western Europe, euthanasia is a crime. Although the medical profession in several European countries has rejected efforts to
Gevers, J.K.M.
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Four Newly Established Legal Requisites for Active Euthanasia in Japan
, 1996 On March 28, 1995 at the Yokohama District Court in Japan, four legal requisites for active euthanasia were newly established by the chief judge, when he rendered the judgment on the murder case of a physician, Tokunaga. The case has been reported by the
Hoshino, Kazumasa
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Knowledge, attitude, and acceptance of euthanasia among medical students and doctors in Pakistan: A cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore)Raza A +16 more
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Definitional confusion in nurses' and physicians' attitudes toward euthanasia in India: A systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Palliat Support CareKashyap K, Gielen J.
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