A personal narrative from David Muller, the dean for medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, is presented, which explores his experience with an old patient in his nineties, who voluntarily stopped eating and drinking in order to have a hastened death....
Public support forphysician-assisted deathhas plateaued in the United States, and the practice hasn't soared as some had feared, a new study finds. In places where it's legal, physician-aided death remains rare. It's confined mostly to cancer patients who are white, wealthy and well-educate...
For instance, a 2018Medscape ethics reportfound that 58% of doctors who responded to the survey said physician-assisted death should be available to the terminally ill, similar to 57% in 2016, and up from 54% in 2014 and 46% in 2010. However, doctors who are willing to participate find...
The former, they argue, is a less visible, less easily regulated decision. Proponents of physician-assisted suicide also claim that diseases kill people in far more cruel ways than would any means of death that a physician might provide for an irreversibly ill patient. As a result, they see...
of Edinburgh, UK), who has studied the Oregon Death with Dignity Act and legal euthanasia in the Netherlands, argues for better palliative care in the debate over physician-assisted suicide. The author of Patient-Centered Ethics and Communication at the End of Life (Radcliffe, 2006) treats defi...
There is a pressing debate in the United States concerning the implied physicians' obligation to do no harm and the status of legalizing physician-assisted... WC Fowler,HG Koenig - 《Journal of Religion & Health》 被引量: 0发表: 2024年 Dementia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Why Death with...
to kill herself by using his so-called Mercitron machine. Over the following three and a half years he was present at the deaths of 20 others. In response to Kevorkian’s role in the death of 70-year-old Hugh Gale, the Michigan legislature passed a bill making it afelonyto knowingly ...
Today's news is full of stories about suicide machines, and physician-assisted death. Can physician-assisted death be accepted as a reasonable ethical choice? Or must a patient's pain and suffering be prolonged in order to preserve life, without regard to the quality of that life? A mind-...
Background: Legislation on physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is being considered in a number of states since the passage of the Oregon Death With Dignity Ac... A Craig,B Cronin,W Eward,... - 《Journal of Medical Ethics》 被引量: 54发表: 2007年 Legalizing physician-assisted suicide: some...
The meaning of PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE is suicide by a patient facilitated by means (such as a drug prescription) or by information (such as an indication of a lethal dosage) provided by a physician aware of the patient's intent. How to use physician-