Background: Medical Assistance in Dying comprises interventions that can be provided by
medical practitioners to cause death of a person at their request if they meet predefined …

Assisted dying is a highly controversial moral issue incorporating both physician-assisted
dying (PAD) and voluntary active euthanasia. End-of-life practices are debated in many …

BACKGROUND: Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized across Canada in June
2016. Some have expressed concern that patient requests for MAiD might be driven by poor …

Abstract Aims and Objectives To learn about the attitudes of nurses working in the
Andalusian Public Health System regarding euthanasia and its legalisation. Background …

The question of whether problems with the social determinants of health that might impact
decision-making justify denying eligibility for assisted dying has recently come to the fore in …

Calls to legalize physician-assisted suicide have increased and public interest in the subject
has grown in recent years despite ethical prohibitions. Many people have concerns about …

Background Safeguarding the right to die according to the principles of autonomy and
freedom of each person has become more important in the last decade, therefore increasing …

Background Humanitarian crises and emergencies, events often marked by high mortality,
have until recently excluded palliative care—a specialty focusing on supporting people with …

Standard views of good death in human and veterinary medicine considerably differ from
one another. Whereas the good death ideal in palliative medicine emphasizes the positive …

Medical professional societies have traditionally opposed physician-assisted suicide and
euthanasia (PAS-E), but this opposition may be shifting. We present 5 reasons why …