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Mistakes, coercion, abuse and misleading patients can be the effects of the use of aid in dying euphemism. Physician-assisted suicide is the proper term.
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US doctors confirm and clarify their opposition to assisted suicide. ‘A prescription for death’

With a large majority (392-162), the most important medical institution in the United States reiterates that assisted suicide is not a medical act. It is “fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer” AMA says. AMA’s Council on Ethical...
Posted On 25 Jun 2019
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Trump restores the inherent freedoms of a state of law: conscientious objection protection and religious exemptions. The regulation is raising complaints
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American Governement protects conscientious objection in the field of abortion, sterilization and assisted suicide

Don’t miss below video “1,300 complaints alleging discrimination in a health care setting on account of religious beliefs or conscience issues” (NHS official data) “Just today we finalized new protections of conscience rights for physicians, pharmacists, nurses,...
Posted On 19 Jun 2019
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The slippery slope of assisted death in countries where it has been legalized doesn't stop the assisted suicide increase in western countries
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Assisted suicide last figures. 13,000 patients died in 2017

Several countries and some North American states have recently legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide, including Canada and the State of California in the US. In 2017, more than 13,000 patients died worldwide by assisted suicide in countries in which these practices are legal....
Posted On 18 Jun 2019
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In past report we warning about involuntary euthanasia now assisted suicide existential suffering is analyzed as a other side effect of the law
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Existential suffering and assisted suicide. Increasing individuals with worthy lives opt to end their lives. Why?

“Health care professionals and volunteers from a “right-to-die organization” can be the cause of the increasing the assisted suicide requests from existential suffering people” Our Observatory recently published a large study (see HERE) warning the slippery and very...
Posted On 13 Jun 2019
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Body donation new route. The new scenario presents an opportunity for harvesting corpses but an increase in pressure to the patient and family. Assisted suicide law effects
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Legalization of assisted suicide effects. “A source of good-quality organs and corpses”, ethical comment

When the transplant team and anatomy laboratories in search of corpses come knocking… A relevant ethical issue in transplant procedures is the autonomy of the donor and respect for the peace and privacy they need as they approach the end of their life. However, in countries where...
Posted On 15 Apr 2019
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Euthanasia condemned by medical profession. Leaving clear that this practice doesn't match with physician function that is to heal the patient
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Three leading medical international organizations against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

“However, permitting physicians to engage in euthanasia would ultimately cause more harm than good.” The IAHPC, a leading international organization in the area of palliative care, has recently declared in an article published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine,...
Posted On 10 Oct 2017
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Looking for assisted suicide facilities. Switzeralnd is the sole country without any regulation. Even it does'nt require the participation of a doctor
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The most permissive assisted suicide country is Switzerland

Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, and moreover, is accessible without having to provide any reason. There are no rules that require the participation of a doctor, and most suicides are assisted by associations that support the right to a dignified death. Even though, in...
Posted On 23 Jun 2017
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Suicide burden worlwide.It remains an important preventable contributor to the global burden of disease across all regions
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Assisted suicide in patients with “treatment-resistant depression”

Some authors have proposed accepting assisted suicide in patients with treatment-resistant depression (Journal Medicine Ethics 41; 577-83,2015). However, their arguments are called into question by FG Miller (J Med Ethics 41; 885-886, 2015), who questions the professional...
Posted On 09 Feb 2017
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Euthanasia and assisted suicide. Attitudes and practice in countries where they have been legalised
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Euthanasia and assisted suicide. Attitudes and practice in countries where they have been legalised

 The ethical and legal aspects of euthanasia and assisted suicide continue to be the subject of active controversy. Some countries have recently legalised these practices, while others are in the process of doing so. It therefore seems of interest to review this topic, which has...
Posted On 19 Jan 2017
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Assisted suicide law is limited in some countries in other is used in
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Assisted suicide law in different countries

Assisted suicide, which essentially consists of a physician providing the means for a patient to end their own life, is legal in four American states, Canada and four European countries. In the United States, assisted suicide law is exclusively limited to patients with terminal...
Posted On 16 Dec 2016
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