Medical Euthanasia Articles

What are euthanasia and assisted suicide? - Medical …

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/182951

Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide refer to a deliberate action taken with the intention of ending a life to relieve …

Euthanasia: Classifications, Legality, and Procedures

https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-is-euthanasia-1132209

In euthanasia, a doctor performs an act that causes someone’s death. In assisted suicide, someone gives an ill person the means they can then use to take their own life. The …

What Is Euthanasia? Types, Legal Status, Facts, Controversy, and

https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-euthanasia

When Patients Choose to End Their Lives - The New …

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/well/live/aid-in-dying.html

Most people who seek medical aid in dying would prefer to live but have an illness that has in effect stripped their lives of meaning. Though often — and, proponents say, unfortunately —...

Medical euthanasia brings new questions for researchers

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0696-8

Many medical organizations, including the World Medical Association, are strongly opposed to the practice. But now a further ethical dilemma has emerged: some …

Euthanasia - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/euthanasia

Nonfiction A Neuroscientist Faces Death, and Learns Henry Marsh’s “And Finally” tests the limits — and comforts — of knowledge. By Kieran Setiya Ross Douthat Will Euthanasia Be Secular or Sacred?...

We have a right to die with dignity. The medical …

https://theconversation.com/we-have-a-right-to-die-with-dignity-the-medical-profession-has-a-duty-to-assist-67574

Euthanasia represents one of the oldest issues in medical ethics. It is forbidden in the original Hippocratic Oath, and has consistently been opposed by most religious traditions since...

Nursing and euthanasia: A narrative review of the …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31113279/

Background: Medical Assistance in Dying, also known as euthanasia or assisted suicide, is expanding internationally. Canada is the first country to permit Nurse Practitioners to …

Euthanasia | ama-coe - American Medical Association

https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/euthanasia

It is understandable, though tragic, that some patients in extreme duress—such as those suffering from a terminal, painful, debilitating illness—may come to decide that death is …

Euthanasia is not medical treatment | British Medical …

https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/106/1/45/321635

The author of ‘Euthanasia: medications and medical procedures’ is similarly categorical, prescriptive and unrestrained by self-doubt. For example, he advises the …