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Crutchfield, Nikki J. Bowling Cynthia Jones. "To succeed of not to succeed how do political influences, culture, and demographics of a state afffect the passing of physician assisted suicide initiatives? /." Auburn, Ala., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1497.
Full textSmith, Stephen William. "Autonomy, paternalism and physician-assisted suicide." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488070.
Full textFrantz, William Clyde. "A New Justification for Physician-Assisted Suicide." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/144347.
Full textDiFilippo, Stephanie Marie. "Assisted Suicide; The Moral Permissiblity of Hastening Death." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu157415968616075.
Full textMorin, Benoît. "Revisiting euthanasia and assisted suicide, the issue of suffering." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63746.pdf.
Full textBauducco, Serena. "Equine Assisted Psychotherapy with Suicidal Girls: Understanding the Changes over Time." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-23793.
Full textTapley, Robin L. "Moral responsibility in physician-assisted death /." *McMaster only, 1997.
Find full textChastang, Françoise. "La mort choisie pour raison psychique ou existentielle : de l'autodétermination à la rencontre éthique." Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023UPASR030.
Full textDeath chosen for psychic or existential reasons: from self-determination to ethical encounterPassionate debates on euthanasia and assisted suicide are a topical issue in Europe.The experience of neighboring countries, especially Belgium and the Netherlands, shows that a law on euthanasia or medically-assisted suicide makes possible active assistance in dying to people suffering from psychological disorders or for existential reasons, whether or not this was initially desired.Such an extension raises societal, clinical and ethical questions.This law can only take root in a society where attitudes to death and the way in which we conceive of our own death are changing. With the transgression of societal and ethical taboos, in what will be an unprecedented societal anthropological rupture, who will own death - society, the citizen or the doctor?From a clinical point of view, the question is how to reconcile such requests for assistance in dying with suicide prevention, especially as there is undoubtedly a great clinical proximity between suicidal patients and people requesting active assistance in dying for psychological reasons. How can we assess deeply subjective psychological suffering? How can we solve the problem of assessing discernment, which is often impaired by mental disorders? What role should psychiatry play in the face of severe and persistent mental disorders?Above all, such delicate issues have a major impact on the care of particularly vulnerable people, at a crucial time when psychiatry is facing a major structural crisis. A law on active assistance in dying will open the door to a profound paradigm shift in the doctor/patient relationship, for which an ethical reading will become essential
Echewodo, Christian Chidi. "Professional Integrity and the Dilemma in Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS)." Thesis, Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2405.
Full textThere is no stronger or more enduring prohibition in medicine than the rule against the killing of patients by doctors. This prohibition is rooted in some medical codes and principles. Out standing among the principles surrounding these prohibitions are the principles of beneficence and non-maleficience. The contents of these principles in a way mark the professional integrity of the physician. But the modern approach to health care services pulls a demand for the respect of the individual right of self-determination. This demand is now glaring in almost all the practices pertaining to health care services. In end of life decisions, this modern demand is found much in practices like physician- assisted suicide and euthanasia. It demands that the physician ought to respect the wish and choice of the patient, and so, must assist the patient in bringing about his or her death when requested. In such manner, this views the principle of autonomy as absolute and should not be overridden in any circumstance.
However, the physician on his part is part of the medical profession that has integrity to protect. This integrity in medical profession which demands that the physician works only towards the health care of the patient and to what reduces diseases and deaths often go contrary to this respect for individual autonomy. Thus faced with such requests by patients, the physician always sees his integrity in conflict with his demand to respect the autonomous choice of the patient and so has a dilemma in responding to such requests. This is the focus of this work,"Professional Integrity and the Dilemma in Physician- Assisted Suicide"
However, the centre of my argument in this work is not merely though necessary to develop general arguments for or against the general justification of PAS, but to critically view the role played by the physicians in assisting the death of their patients as it comes in conflict with the medical obligation and integrity. Is it morally right, out rightly wrong or in certain situation permissible that physicians respond positively to the request of the patients for PAS? This is the overarching moral problem in the morality of physician- assisted suicide, and this work will consider this in line with the main problem in the work “the dilemma of professional physicians in the assistance of suicide.
Fernandes, Ashley K. "Euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the philosophical anthropology of Karol Wojtyla." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/436215376/viewonline.
Full textJotterand, Fabrice. "Created in God's image a theological critique of physician assisted suicide /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
Full textOpara, Ignatius Chidiebere. "Voluntary Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide : A Critical Ethical Comparative Analysis." Thesis, Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2915.
Full textThe two most controversial ends of life decisions are those in which physicians help patients take their lives and when the physician deliberately and directly intervenes to end the patients’ life upon his request. These are often referred to as voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide have continued to be controversial public issues. This controversy has agitated the minds of great thinkers including ethicians, physicians, psychologists, moralists, philosophers even the patient himself. Hence the physician, patient, the public and policy makers have recently had to face several difficult questions.
Is it morally right to end the life of the patients? Is there any moral difference at all between Voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide? Should a terminally ill patient be allowed to take his life and should the medical profession have the option of helping the patient die. Should voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide be legalised at all? And what actually will be the legal and moral implications if they are allowed.
In a bid to find a lasting solution to these moral problems and questions has led to two different strong positions viz opponents and proponents of voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. The centre of my argument in this work is not to develop new general arguments for or against voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide but to make a critical ethical comparative analysis of voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. This is the focus of my work. The sole aim of this work is neither to solely condemn nor to support voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide but to critically analyze the two since we live in a world of pluralism.
Lavery, Jim. "Losing yourself to AIDS, the meaning of euthanasia and assisted suicide." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0005/NQ41203.pdf.
Full textDixon, Laura Marie. "Physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill patient : a constitutional right?" Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 1997. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/168.
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Holody, Kyle J. "CONSTRUCTING THE END: FRAMING AND AGENDA-SETTING OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1305663580.
Full textVangouver, Maria. "Physician Assisted Suicide - Ethically Defendable or Not? : A Qualitative Ethical Analysis." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-77063.
Full textWest, Christopher James. "A comparative study of hospice exposure versus attitudes towards physician assisted suicide." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
Full textKaur, Jaskiran. "Attitudes of Suicide Prevention Workers toward Euthanasia." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37720.
Full textBenestad, Janet. "Physician Assisted Suicide in Massachusetts: Vote "No" on 2012 Ballot Question 2." Thesis, Boston College, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109067.
Full textThe “Death with Dignity Act,” if passed in November 2012 in Massachusetts by means of a ballot initiative, would have allowed doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to patients with fewer than six months to live. Introduced by two pro-assisted suicide organizations from the Pacific Northwest, the initiative was expected to take advantage of a political “perfect storm” brewing in the Bay State. A blue state in a presidential election year, with President Obama at the top of the Democratic ticket, Massachusetts was expected to produce an electoral outcome favorable to assisted suicide. Oregon and Washington State had legalized physician-assisted suicide in 1998 and 2008, respectively. Polling in 2011 showed a 2-1 majority among Massachusetts voters in favor of assisted suicide. Nonetheless, the Archbishop of Boston and the Bishops of Worcester, Fall River and Springfield, organized as the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, took up the challenge to oppose the initiative. Relying on the expertise of paid political consultants, they mounted a two-tiered campaign. An internal component, directed at Catholics, included the dissemination of over 2 million pieces of in-print and electronic materials urging a “no” vote on the measure. An external component, directed at the wider public, relied on a coalition of organizations representing the three major religions, health and hospice organizations, disabilities rights activists, and pharmacists. Using “flaws” in the bill identified through strategic polling, they appealed to voters even sympathetic to assisted suicide to reject the bill. When the votes were counted 2.7 million Massachusetts citizens voted on the physician-assisted suicide initiative and it was defeated by 67,891 votes, 51.1% to 48.9%. One key to the defeat was the split in the vote in the city of Boston, where Question 2 was defeated 50.9% to 49.1% . Twelve of Boston’s 22 wards voted against the measure. Leading the way among the twelve were Dorchester, Roxbury, and Hyde Park, traditionally black, liberal Democratic strongholds. This study shows that even the most effective, well-funded, Church-initiated campaign in Massachusetts in 2012 might well have foundered on the 2-1 majority in favor of assisted suicide at the polls, not for the strategic identification of “flaws in the bill,” the broad-based coalition campaign based on them, and the “split in the vote in the black community in Boston.”
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021
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Discipline: Political Science
Minnich, Donna K. "Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: attitudes and beliefs among college age students." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2000. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3496.
Full textAchille, Marie A. "Attitudes toward assisted suicide among patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and their caregivers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0023/NQ51830.pdf.
Full textOlsson, Johanna. "A European Right to Assisted Suicide? Moral Justifications of the ECtHR Case Law." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23180.
Full textMullock, Alexandra Katherine. "End-of-life law and assisted dying in the 21st century : time for cautious revolution?" Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/endoflife-law-and-assisted-dying-in-the-21st-century-time-for-cautious-revolution(f7459b5b-1e51-48bd-95c2-5ada72efe443).html.
Full textNewman, Timothy D. "Links between ethics and public policy a Q methodological study of physician assisted suicide and euthanasia /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1113589210.
Full textTitle from PDF t.p. (Aug. 9, 2006) Advisors: Steven R. Brown, Jennifer P. Maxwell. Keywords: PAS, physician-assisted suicide, ethics and public policy, euthanasia, end of life policies, the right to die debate, Q methodology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161- 173).
Stanners, Andrew John. "Would the permitting of Physician Assisted Suicide be a desirable extension of patient choice?" Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18051/.
Full textMäkinen, Ilkka. "On suicide in European countries : some theoretical, legal and historical views on suicide mortality and its concomitants." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 1997. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-48376.
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Bright, Trudy Bernice. "Doctors killing patients the societal risks of legalizing physician-assisted suicide in the United States /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/461268073/viewonline.
Full textVolker, Deborah L. "Oncology nurses' experiences with requests for assisted dying from terminally ill cancer patients /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textBerger, Marcia. "A morally justified policy for assisted euthanasia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51578.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was undertaken to evaluate whether a mentally competent mature human being, who is suffering an intolerable, irremediable existence resulting from an incurable agonising or devastating paralysing disease; has a moral, personal and civic right to end that life or have it ended by requesting assistance in meeting death in a humane, compassionate and dignified manner. ~ The righteousness of such assistance can only be gauged if it follows the repeated and voluntary request of someone who is presently not suffering from any psychiatric disorder, is presently mentally competent or had made such a written or verbal witnessed advance directive while mentally competent to do so. ~ This study will not deal with assistance in dying either active or passive which is performed on severely mentally and physically handicapped new-born babies with scant prospect of survival; nor with euthanasia for the relief of malignant or paralysing disease in those with life-long [anoxic, congenital, inflammatory or traumatic] mental incompetencies who have never had decision-making capacity. ~ This study will not address issues of aid-in-dying for mentally incompetent persons suffering from senile dementia, Alzheimer's disease, or permanent vegetative states due to brain pathology following anoxic, circulatory, infective, malignant or traumatic events, who have not made advance directives and who had never stated preferences concerning assisted euthanasia. The aim of this study is to outline the moral case advanced by those in favour of legalising Voluntary Assisted Euthanasia [VAE] also called Assisted Euthanasia [AE] and to develop ethically sound and practical proposals for policy and actions contributing towards the resolution of the moral dilemma faced daily by doctors when asked by mentally competent patients suffering from irremediable malignant or paralysing diseases or the agonising symptoms of end-stage Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) for assistance to end their lives. }ii> This study will cover and discuss the more important objections of those opposed to the legalising of assisted suicide for mentally-competent terminal patients who are irremediably suffering in their bodies or from dehumanising incurable endstage paralysing diseases and are near to an inevitable death. }ii> The insights of philosophers, theologians, physicians and sociologists on the subject of suicide and aid-in-dying, have been researched in the extensive literature that exists (both in print and in cyberspace) on these subjects and are presented with the study. }ii> The study tries to show that a competent adult in certain grim circumstances should have an inalienable human right, if not a constitutional one, to request assisted euthanasia or aid-in-dying or assistance in ending their lives. }ii> Such assistance must be subject to peer review, after careful assessment by a multidisciplinary team in the healing [both physical and spiritual] professions This paper will try to determine whether the actionalisation of voluntary assisted suicide or assisted euthanasia is murder or an act of compassion and empathy performed out of respect for a fellow human being's autonomy and in deference to their right to self-determination and self-realisation. ~ The relevance of this situation is that aid-in-dying is becoming one of the major, moral, religious, philosophical and bio-medical dilemmas at this time. ~ The author's position is that it is neither just nor ethical to prevent a mentallycompetent human being, who is tormented by agonising, incurable terminal physical or irremediable paralysing disease, from deciding to chose to die when he/she can no longer bear the torment and asking for professional assistance to effect this. This relief should be given not only to those who are able to make an enduring, informed contemporaneous decision, but also to those who [when they still had decision-making capacity] had previously made a considered informed advance directive about the use of ordinary and extraordinary medical methods of sustaining a life that had become merely an existence.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie is onderneem om te evalueer of 'n bevoegde, volwasse mens wat 'n onverduurbare en ongeneesbare bestaan het a.g.v. 'n ongeneesbare, folterende of vernietigende siekte, 'n morele, persoonlike of burgerlike reg het om daardie lewe te beeïndig of hulp te vra om dit te laat beeïndig, ten einde die dood op 'n menswaardige wyse tegemoet te gaan. ~ Die regverdigbaarheid van bogenoemde hulp kan slegs bepaal word as dit volg op die herhaalde en vrywillige versoeke van iemand wat nie, wanneer hy/sy dit versoek, ly aan 'n geestessiekte nie, wat bevoeg is of wat so 'n geskrewe of mondelinge versoek, met getuies, gemaak het terwyl die persoon kompetent was. ~ Die studie handel nie oor bystand-in-sterfte, aktief of passief, waar dit uitgevoer word op fisies of psigies ernstig gestremde pasgebore babas met 'n skrale kans op oorlewing nie; ook nie oor genadedood ter verligting van kwaadaardige of verlammende siekte in diegene met lewenslange [anoksiese, kongenitale, inflammatoriese of traumatiese] geestelike ongesteldhede, wat nog nooit besluitnemende kapasiteit gehad het nie. ~ Die studie ondersoek nie gevalle van bystand-met-sterfte waar inkompetente persone wat ly aan seniliteit, Alzheimer se siekte, of permanente vegetatiewe toestande a.g.v. brein patologie n.a.v. anoksiese, sirkulatoriese, infektiewe, kwaadaardige of traumatiese gebeure, nie direk gevra het vir genadedood of nooit die voorkeur vir geassisteerde genadedood uitgespreek het nie. Die doel van hierdie studie is om die morele saak van diegene ten gunste van die wettiging van Vrywillige Geassisteerde Genadedood, ook bekend as Geassisteerde Genadedood, te stel en om praktiese sowel as eties verantwoordbare voorstelle te maak vir beleid en optrede wat kan bydra tot die oplos van die morele dilemma wat dokters daagliks in die gesig staar wanneer hulle deur geestelik bevoegde pasiënte wat ly aan ongeneesbare, kwaadaardige of verlammende siektes, of die folterende simptome van die finale stadium van Verworwe Immuniteits Gebrek Sindroom [VIGS], gevra word vir bystand in die beeïndiging van hulle lewens. ~ Die studie sal die belangriker besware van diegene aanspreek wat teen die wettiging is van geassisteerde genadedood vir geestelik bevoegde terminale pasiënte wat ongeneesbaar ly of van dehumaniserende ongeneesbare finale stadium siektes en wat naby is aan 'n onafwendbare dood. ~ Die insigte van filosowe, teoloë, dokters en sosioloë oor bystand-met-sterfte en selfmoord, is nagevors in die wye literatuur beskikbaar is (beide in druk en kuberruimte) oor hierdie onderwerpe en word saam met die studie angebied. ~ Die studie probeer aantoon dat 'n bevoegde volwassene in sekere erge omstandighede 'n onvervreembare mensereg, indien nie 'n konstitusionele reg nie, behoort te hê om bystand tydens genadedood te versoek. ~ Sulke bystand moet onderworpe wees aan groepsevaluasie, na versigtige ondersoek deur 'n multi-dissiplinêre span in die gesondheidsprofessies [beide fisies en psigies]. Die studie sal probeer bepaal of die uitvoering van vrywillige geassisteerde selfmoord of geassisteerde genadedood moord is, of 'n aksie van empatie, uitgevoer uit respek vir 'n medemens se outonomie, sy/haar reg tot selfdeterminasie en self-realisasie. )lo- Die relevansie van hierdie situasie lê daarin dat bystand-met-sterfte besig is om een van die belangrikste morele, religieuse, filosofiese en biomediese dilemmas van ons tyd te word. )lo- Die outeur se posisie is dat dit nie regverdig of eties is om te verhoed dat 'n geestelik bevoegde mens, wat ly aan folterende, ongeneesbare terminale fisiese of ongeneesbare verlammende siekte, self kies om te sterf wanneer hy/sy nie meer die lyding kan verdra nie en vir professionele bystand vra om dit uit te voer. Die verligting behoort gegee te word, nie net aan diegene wat in staat is om 'n bindende en ingeligte besluit te maak nie, maar ook aan -diegene wat [toe hulle nog besluitnemende kapasitiet gehad het] vroeër 'n oorweegde, ingeligte vroegtydige versoek gemaak het aangaande die gebruik van gewone en buitengewone mediese metodes vir die verlenging van 'n lewe wat bloot 'n bestaan geword het.
Madan, Anita. "The role of religion and secularism in the legalisation of assisted suicide in multicultural English society." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/4055.
Full textNewman, Timothy David. "LINKS BETWEEN ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY: A Q METHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1113589210.
Full textHegarty, Benjamin. "Attitudes among Swedish medical students towards assisted dying." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-90275.
Full textBaer-Henney, Juliane. "Die Strafbarkeit aktiver Sterbehilfe - ein Beispiel für symbolisches Strafrecht? : eine Analyse der deutschen Rechtslage unter Bezugnahme auf die rechtliche Behandlung des assistierten Freitods in den USA /." Aachen : Shaker, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sbb-berlin/393456773.pdf.
Full textFausto, Melchor Veronica Lorraine. "HOSPICE SOCIAL WORKERS’ ATTITUDE ON PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE AND PRACTICE UNDER CALIFORNIA’S END OF LIFE OPTION ACT." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/632.
Full textVan, der Merwe Abrie. "An analysis of assisted dying and the practical implementation thereof in South African criminal law." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65628.
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Walker, Ollie Dooling. "Physician assisted suicide : a survey of North Carolina end of life care workers : a project based upon an independent investigation /." View online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/5943.
Full textPollard, John. "The impact of religious affiliation and religious practices on attitudes toward euthanasia and assisted suicide a sociological perspective /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ56197.pdf.
Full textWilliams, Glenys. "Intention and causation in medical non-killing : the impact of criminal law concepts on euthanasia and assisted suicide /." London [u.a.] : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/506765466.pdf.
Full textSchimmoeller, Ethan. "Palliating Nihilism by Physician Aid-in-Dying: On Compassion, Autonomy, and the Question of Suicide." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594485758002202.
Full textPrice, Annabel. "Mental capacity assessment for terminally ill adults requesting physician assisted suicide : a qualitative study using a grounded theory approach." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2016. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/mental-capacity-assessment-for-terminally-ill-adults-requesting-physician-assisted-suicide(c77dec7a-ee77-4efd-9670-caf2d800e90b).html.
Full textHennessey, Sean Francis. "Still Lives and Set Pieces." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3022.
Full textHerington, Thomas. "Making Dying Better: Envisioning a Meaningful Death by Contemplating the Assisted Death." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34977.
Full textThieme, Matthias. "Einstellungen zur Sterbehilfe bei unheilbar erkrankten Patienten- Eine prospektive multizentrische Untersuchung auf sächsischen Palliativstationen." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-129708.
Full textLEIPOLDT, Erik, and eleipoldt@upnaway com. "Good life in the balance: a cross-national study of Dutch and Australian disability perspectives on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide." Edith Cowan University. Education And Arts: School Of, 2003. http://adt.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2006.0010.html.
Full textLeipoldt, Erik A. "Good life in the balance: A cross-national study of Dutch and Australian disability perspectives on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/116.
Full textBjurling, Natalie, and Sandra Jörgenstam. "Sjuksköterskans erfarenheter av dödshjälp : En litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-6522.
Full textBackground: Euthanasia is a debated subject that concerns nurses’ duties. Several countries and states have legalized euthanasia. Euthanasia can be seen as a way of respecting patients wishes, relieving suffering and preserving dignity. However, it can also be considered against healthcare personnels own autonomy or ICN ethical code, which means that the health care task is to alleviate and cure and not harm the patient. Healthcare professionals describe difficulties in dealing with situations where these components differ in a variety of ways. Aim: The aim of the study was to highlight nurses’ experiences and factors that may affect experiences of working with people who want or will undergo euthanasia. Method: A literature review according to Friberg was conducted. The result is based on ten original articles that were obtained through systematic search. The analysis was conducted by thematization and color-coding. Results: Workning with assistens in death was experienced differently depending on the type of euthanasia that was carried out, the experiences of patients and relatives, participation in decision making, ethical codes and laws, as well as nurses’ own values and experiences. This led to both positive and negative experiences for the nurse. These experiences could also be managed through formal or informal support, which in turn contributed to nurses’ experiences. Discussion: The discussion is based on Travelbees theory of interpersonal relationships and how care without rolls can contribute to better care, but also affect nurses’ experiences of care. In addition, there is discussion about how nurses own values and understandings affect experiences in health care.
Starks, Helene Elizabeth. "Dying on one's own terms : access to care, timing of death, and effects on family members /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5413.
Full textDupont, Bernard-Marie. "Euthanasie et suicide médicalement assisté : le droit français peut-il et doit-il évoluer ?" Thesis, Le Mans, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LEMA2001.
Full textEuthanasia can be defined as an act to cause directly the death of a human being, so that this death quickly happens and without suffering, with the intention to deliver that or the one who is going to die from an unbearable condition. The suicide medically assisted is often moved forward as a synonym, because in the case of the euthanasia as in that of the suicide, it is the will of the patient that has to express himself, and which is essential. In the case of the euthanasia, as in the case of the suicide medically assisted, the death is given by another person.In the French law, the euthanasia and the suicide medically assisted are not authorized. Under the pressure of media business, since a few years, patients, families, nursing, associations claim a right for the death chosen as medical reasons. In a way, is claimed an opposable right to be able to choose the moment of its own death. Others oppose the decriminalization and the legalization.Does the French law can and he has to evolve? It is this question that this thesis intends to answer, in two parts. In the first part, dedicated to the comparative law, are analyzed the Belgian law of June 22nd, 2002 which legalized the euthanasia, and the bill from Quebec N 52 of June, 2013.In the second part, having noticed the specificities of the contract of care, it is put that it required there to maintain the outlawed euthanasia, or more exactly than a specific law is not imperative upon the French legal tradition, which has to maintain the prohibition of the decriminalization and the legalization of the euthanasia
Bando, Catherine. "Assisted Death: Historical, Moral and Theological Perspectives of End of Life Options." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/513.
Full textRossi, Shakila A. "The End : A thesis focusing on Euthanasia and The Patient." Thesis, Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-74.
Full textSuffering from a terminal illness, or being chronically sick or severely disabled is not pleasant, which most of us will never experience life like this. However, there are people who are living in precisely that kind of constant, excruciating pain, agony and misery, 24 hours of the day, 365 days a year, stuck in a “living Hell” with no way of ending their enforced but unwanted torment – other than the highly controversial ‘therapy’ of euthanasia.
Those of us who are relatively healthy have a choice in how and when we end our lives. We can decide to wait until our life ends naturally, or we can speed up the process by committing suicide in whatever manner we choose. But, because of their illness or disability, the patients discussed in this thesis are being denied that same choice – because they must ask for help to die, they have had their right to decide matters such as when, where and how to go, for themselves taken away from them by people who believe that they know better than the patient what is best for them.
In Chapter 1, I will clarify some of the many, often contradicting, definitions and ideas associated with euthanasia.
In Chapter 2, because death is a very personal subject and everyone has different reasons why they want to die, I have used extracts from two very personal letters explaining why they sought euthanasia.
In Chapter 3, I will show how a patient considering euthanasia can use two Ends and Means arguments (Utilitarianism and Deontology) to decide if killing themselves would be the moral course of action to end their suffering. I will also discuss the morality of euthanasia eastern and western society.
In Chapter 4, the discussion turns to who would be the best person to help the patient die. I will examine how euthanasia can comply with various professional and personal codes of conduct and discuss the ideal character of the would-be euthaniser.
In Chapter 5 (the final chapter) I will conclude by using the information from the previous chapters to answer two important questions:
1. Whether it is ethical for a patient to even be thinking about euthanasia in the first place.
2. Who is (ethically) the best person to ask to kill the patient
This thesis is not about whether or not euthanasia should be legalised (as I will explain – euthanasia is already going on, albeit illegally) but to discuss the morality of asking someone else to go against all matter of strictly enforced and deeply ingrained legal, moral and professional rules imposed by society in order to help the patient die.