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Palliative Sedation Versus Euthanasia: An Ethical Assessment
Palliative Sedation Versus Euthanasia: An Ethical Assessment via Palliative Sedation Versus Euthanasia: An Ethical Assessment. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: agitation, delirium, ethics,...
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Euthanasia is not medical treatment
Areas of controversy Advocates of euthanasia and assisted suicide give priority to the right to personal autonomy and avoid discussions of harmful impacts of these practices on medicine, law and...
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Physician-Assisted Suicide Voted Down in Maine
The Maine House of Representatives overwhelming defeated a bill on May 31 that would have made the state the fourth in the nation to explicitly legalize physician-assisted suicide. via...
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Medical Futility Blog: Aid-in-Dying: Is Terminal Illness a Prerequisite?
Dr. Philippe Freiburghaus prescribed sodium pentobarbital to an 89-year-old man suffering unbearable pain who had tried to commit suicide. But Swiss prosecutors said the doctor had “crossed the line”...
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Dutch doctors get guidance on care of terminally ill newborn babies | BMJ
The Royal Dutch Medical Association has published professional standards to try to clarify the line between palliative care of terminally ill newborn babies and deliberately killing them. via Dutch...
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What happens after a request for euthanasia is refused? Qualitative...
Patients who are refused EAS may subsequently be silent about a wish to die without abandoning it. Open communication about wishes to die is important, even outside the context of EAS, because if...
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ingentaconnect Fast Track Article: Food and fluid intake and palliat…A...
Conclusions: This longitudinal prospective study does not support the argument that palliative sedation amounts to ‘slow euthanasia’ because it entails the withholding or withdrawing of substantial...
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Splitting the Difference? Principled Compromise and Assisted Dying – Huxtable...
In response to recent articles by Søren Holm and Alex Mullock, in this article I argue that principled compromise can be encouraged even in relation to this phenomenon, provided that certain conditions...
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Medical expertise, existential suffering and ending life — Varelius — Journal...
In this article, I assess the position that voluntary euthanasia (VE) and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) ought not to be accepted in the cases of persons who suffer existentially but who have no...
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‘Existential suffering’ and voluntary medically assisted dying — Young —...
Jukka Varelius1 ,2 and others3 have advocated that medically assisted dying should be made available on request to competent individuals experiencing ‘existential suffering’. Unlike Cassell and Rich,...
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Medical Futility Blog: Not Dead Yet Comments on Futility to NCD
This week, Diane Coleman, President/CEO of Not Dead Yet, provided public comments on “futile care” laws and policies at the July 25, 2013 meeting of the National Council on Disability. via Medical...
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Judges uphold ruling that doctors cannot help paralysed man end his life | BMJ
Paul Lamb, who has been paralysed from the neck down since a car accident 23 years ago, joined Jane Nicklinson to demand that judges overturn the ban on voluntary euthanasia via Judges uphold ruling...
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Medical Futility Blog: Nicklinson v. DPP – Mixed Results for Right to Die in UK
Last year, the British High Court handed down judgment in the cases of Tony Nicklinson and “Martin.” The two men were seeking clarification of the law relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide. The...
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Doctor-assisted suicide laws pose hospice care dilemmas – amednews.com
Three states now have laws allowing physicians to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients. These laws in Oregon, Vermont and Washington — and similar proposals elsewhere — have...
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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Selected European Countri… : Medical Care
Despite some common characteristics between countries, we found wide variation in the extent and specific characteristics of those who died an assisted death. via Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in...
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The law should be changed to allow assisted dying | BMJ
LETTER Legalising assisted dying The law should be changed to allow assisted dying via The law should be changed to allow assisted dying | BMJ. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: ethics, euthanasia,...
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The Swiss experience of assisted suicide is positive | BMJ
LETTER Legalising assisted dying The Swiss experience of assisted suicide is positive via The Swiss experience of assisted suicide is positive | BMJ. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: ethics, Europe,...
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What do families and professional organisations really think about assisted...
LETTER Legalising assisted dying What do families and professional organisations really think about assisted dying? via What do families and professional organisations really think about assisted...
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Archived Audio and Transcript for Diane Rehm Show with Stephen Drake, Frank...
If you missed the discussion, please check it out. Among topics discussed: conflation of high morphine doses in hospice with the barbiturates used in assisted suicide; the ways in which the term “end...
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Blog Recommendation: Two to Read from the Flanoor Blog by Adrian Rhodes
Adrian describes himself as a social commentator/researcher/person of hidden disabilities – and his blog covers a fairly wide range of topics. Two recent ones are centered on the assisted...
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