Abstract Relieving patients’ suffering is the foremost duty of doctors. Whether euthanasia is needed to alleviate difficult suffering or not, has been extensively discussed in Finland. As euthanasia should not be considered only as a philosophical question, this article summarizes studies and reports published in jurisdictions where euthanasia and/or assisted suicide have been legalized and aims to provide data for further discussion among doctors. Rising euthanasia rates and signs of extending euthanasia practices from severely ill patients to other conditions — such as patients with psychiatric diagnoses or elderly people with multiple geriatric diseases without evident limited life expectancy — reveal some complexity of the theme. The a...
Résumé Euthanasia is and always will be a hot topic of very heated debate among both non specialists...
The article is dedicated to revealing those aspects which allow to distinguish euthanasia from valid...
Euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide, raises several questions regarding legality and ethics. O...
Questionnaire studies on the attitudes of Finnish doctors towards euthanasia were conducted in 1993 ...
In many western societies health professionals play a powerful role in people's experiences of dying...
In parallel with medical developments, the debate on euthanasia has gained new momentumin the Wester...
In this article the representations of suffering are analysed in the context of Fin- nish talk on eu...
Abstract Background Debates around euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are ongoing aroun...
The paper analyses ethical dilemmas and conflicting issues tied to euthanasia and the institutionali...
Background: Euthanasia means help to die. Some terminally ill patients wish for euthanasia. Purpos...
Текст статьи не публикуется в открытом доступе в соответствии с политикой журнала.The article is dev...
Abstract Background The ethics of hastened death are complex. Studies on physicians’ opinions about ...
Raksts veltīts eitanāzijas pieļaujamības aspektu izpētei, ievērojot Kazahstānas tiesību tradīcijas u...
The death-and-dying debates, especially where they focus on euthanasia is now a global debated issue...
The problem of Euthanasia is approached in the light of the Hippocratic principles, which have not c...
Résumé Euthanasia is and always will be a hot topic of very heated debate among both non specialists...
The article is dedicated to revealing those aspects which allow to distinguish euthanasia from valid...
Euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide, raises several questions regarding legality and ethics. O...
Questionnaire studies on the attitudes of Finnish doctors towards euthanasia were conducted in 1993 ...
In many western societies health professionals play a powerful role in people's experiences of dying...
In parallel with medical developments, the debate on euthanasia has gained new momentumin the Wester...
In this article the representations of suffering are analysed in the context of Fin- nish talk on eu...
Abstract Background Debates around euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are ongoing aroun...
The paper analyses ethical dilemmas and conflicting issues tied to euthanasia and the institutionali...
Background: Euthanasia means help to die. Some terminally ill patients wish for euthanasia. Purpos...
Текст статьи не публикуется в открытом доступе в соответствии с политикой журнала.The article is dev...
Abstract Background The ethics of hastened death are complex. Studies on physicians’ opinions about ...
Raksts veltīts eitanāzijas pieļaujamības aspektu izpētei, ievērojot Kazahstānas tiesību tradīcijas u...
The death-and-dying debates, especially where they focus on euthanasia is now a global debated issue...
The problem of Euthanasia is approached in the light of the Hippocratic principles, which have not c...
Résumé Euthanasia is and always will be a hot topic of very heated debate among both non specialists...
The article is dedicated to revealing those aspects which allow to distinguish euthanasia from valid...
Euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide, raises several questions regarding legality and ethics. O...