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Physician Assisted Suicide : An Exploration of the Dying Process
52 Physician Assisted Suicide: An Exploration of the Dying Process Kunwar Kaur Abstract Up until about two decades ago, the practice of physician-assisted suicide was prohibited in the United States. However, the issues surrounding the legalization of physicianassisted suicide have long been the topic of debate as proponents seek to change public policy. Just as keenly, though, the opposition s...
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Professor Finlay is absolutely right that GPs’ opinions are vitally important in the assisted dying debate, and that it is important for the College to have a view on this issue.1 Physician-assisted suicide would involve GPs in assessing requests for assisted suicide and would also require GPs to prescribe lethal doses of medication. It would also be highly stressful for GPs, as seen in the Net...
متن کاملCharacteristics and proportion of dying Oregonians who personally consider physician-assisted suicide.
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) became legally available in Oregon in October 1997. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act (ODDA) limits eligibility to adult Oregon residents who are judged by two physicians to have less than six months to live. Patients must be able to make independent decisions and ingest the lethal dose, and there is a 15-day waiting period between request and receipt of a letha...
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News reports of assisted dying can trigger individuals to end their own lives. Social media is unaccountable to guidelines on reporting suicides. Radian6 social media analysis software was used to explore whether Twitter messages breached guidelines on reporting assisted dying more often than formal online news. Tweets and online news were compared by how frequently “assisted dying” was colloca...
متن کاملSeeking compassion in dying: the Washington State law against assisted suicide.
In May of 1994, federal district Judge Barbara Rothstein ruled in Compassion in Dying v. Washington' that certain terminally-ill adults have a constitutional right to commit physician-assisted suicide. Six months later, Oregon voters narrowly approved a ballot initiative allowing certain terminally-ill adults to obtain physicians' prescriptions for lethal drugs.2 These parallel legal actions mo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Disability & Religion
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2331-2521,2331-253X
DOI: 10.1080/23312521.2018.1486773