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Chung, Augustine Yue-sing. "A comparative study on public policy for patients in making advance medical decision in Hong Kong and Singapore." access abstract and table of contents access full-text, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/dissert.pl?ma-sa-b21430937a.pdf.
Full text"A dissertation undertaken in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the M.A. in Public Policy and Management, City University of Hong Kong." Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 26, 2006) Includes bibliographical references.
Lundvall, Johanna, and Kristiansson Martina Björnsdotter. "Nurses attitudes towards euthanasia." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-1148.
Full textHausmann, Elke. "Media representations of euthanasia." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405001.
Full textKampleitner, Ralph. "The Practice of Euthanasia." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-124664.
Full textParker, J. Charles. "Euthanasia mercy or sacrilege? /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
Full textNortje, Nico. "Older adults' views on euthanasia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52380.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes older adults (65 years and older) have towards euthanasia. The subjects of the study were people 65 years of age and older who reside in homes for the aged within the Cape Metropolis. An equal number of subjects from the African, Coloured and European communities were randomly selected. A biographical questionnaire as well as the Euthanasia Attitude Scale and the Purpose In Life Test, were administered. The influence of four variables were focused on, namely age, ethnicity, meaning in life and health. Pearson correlation coefficient analysis and one-way ANOV A analysis were used. Ethnicity, meaning in life and health were not found to have a significant correlation with euthanasia. Age was the only variable found to have a significant correlation with euthanasia. The findings were discussed and certain recommendations were made.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van die studie was om vas te stel wat die houding van ouer volwassenes (65 jaar en ouer) is ten opsigte van genadedood. Die proefpersone was almalouer as 65 jaar en woonagtig in ouetehuise binne die Kaapse Metropool. 'n Gelyke aantal proefpersone van die Afrika, Kleurling en Europese gemeenskappe is willekeurig gekies. 'n Biografiese vraelys, asook die "Euthanasia Attitude Scale" en "Purpose In Life Test", is gebruik. Die invloed van vier veranderlikes, naamlik: ouderdom, kultuur, betekenis in die lewe en gesondheid, is ondersoek. Pearson korrelasionele koëffisiënt en een-rigting ANOV A ontledings is gebruik. Etnisiteit, betekenis in die lewe en gesondheid het nie beduidend met genadedood gekorreleer nie, ouderdom was die enigste veranderlike wat beduidend met genadedood gekorreleer het. Die bevindinge is bespreek en sekere aanbevelings is gemaak.
Bertelsen, Michelle. "A biblical perspective on euthanasia." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.091-0053.
Full textHolt, Janet. "Attitudes of nurses to euthanasia." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2006. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/262/.
Full textPollard, John. "The impact of religious affiliation and religious practices on attitudes toward euthanasia and assisted suicide a sociological perspective /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ56197.pdf.
Full textMcRae, Robert J. "Is there an ethical difference between active and passive euthanasia?" Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMcConchie, Daniel S. "Redefining the active/passive euthanasia debate introducing new categories to aid proper moral contemplation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMarx, Mauryne. "A model of moral education : the Euthanasia trial." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61330.
Full textThe Euthanasia Trial is a model of moral education which is based on the concept of morality as a combination of caring, judging and acting. Morality begins with a compassionate concern for life; this feeling triggers the psychological ability to consider the interests of others. Caring and empathy alone, however, are not enough. In order to resolve moral conflicts there must also be an ability to reason, to evaluate conflicting interests in the light of certain criteria or principles. Guided by these reasoned judgments, moved by a sense of caring, morality culminates in decisive action.
The Euthanasia Trial attempts to integrate these three components of morality in a multi-faceted project designed for senior high school students. Philosophical dialogues develop the pupils' reasoning abilities; dramatic roles engage their emotional responses; and emphasis on cooperative learning throughout the project provides students with concrete opportunities to practice moral behavior.
Morgan, Greg. "Attitudes Concerning Euthanasia Among Protestant Denominations." TopSCHOLAR®, 1999. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/734.
Full textCutts, Beth A. M. "Women and euthanasia, an interdisciplinary approach." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ39183.pdf.
Full textBeauchamp, Michelle Lyn. "National comparisons of euthanasia opinion polls." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ51685.pdf.
Full textWernow, Jerome R. "A situational argument for passive euthanasia." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBajema, Clifford Earl. "Treatment termination decisions euthanasia or benemortasia /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
Full textSkivka, A. Kuprasova K. "EUTHANASIA AS CONTEMPORARY ETHICO-PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2015. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/15341.
Full textSpooner, Jeffrey M. (Jeffrey Michael) Carleton University Dissertation Religion. "Canadian Christian church perspectives on requests for active voluntary euthanasia by terminally ill patients." Ottawa, 1992.
Find full textMedway, Jo. "'Talk' about euthanasia : a discourse analytic study /." Adelaide, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsm493.pdf.
Full textBerger, Marcia. "A morally justified policy for assisted euthanasia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51578.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was undertaken to evaluate whether a mentally competent mature human being, who is suffering an intolerable, irremediable existence resulting from an incurable agonising or devastating paralysing disease; has a moral, personal and civic right to end that life or have it ended by requesting assistance in meeting death in a humane, compassionate and dignified manner. ~ The righteousness of such assistance can only be gauged if it follows the repeated and voluntary request of someone who is presently not suffering from any psychiatric disorder, is presently mentally competent or had made such a written or verbal witnessed advance directive while mentally competent to do so. ~ This study will not deal with assistance in dying either active or passive which is performed on severely mentally and physically handicapped new-born babies with scant prospect of survival; nor with euthanasia for the relief of malignant or paralysing disease in those with life-long [anoxic, congenital, inflammatory or traumatic] mental incompetencies who have never had decision-making capacity. ~ This study will not address issues of aid-in-dying for mentally incompetent persons suffering from senile dementia, Alzheimer's disease, or permanent vegetative states due to brain pathology following anoxic, circulatory, infective, malignant or traumatic events, who have not made advance directives and who had never stated preferences concerning assisted euthanasia. The aim of this study is to outline the moral case advanced by those in favour of legalising Voluntary Assisted Euthanasia [VAE] also called Assisted Euthanasia [AE] and to develop ethically sound and practical proposals for policy and actions contributing towards the resolution of the moral dilemma faced daily by doctors when asked by mentally competent patients suffering from irremediable malignant or paralysing diseases or the agonising symptoms of end-stage Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) for assistance to end their lives. }ii> This study will cover and discuss the more important objections of those opposed to the legalising of assisted suicide for mentally-competent terminal patients who are irremediably suffering in their bodies or from dehumanising incurable endstage paralysing diseases and are near to an inevitable death. }ii> The insights of philosophers, theologians, physicians and sociologists on the subject of suicide and aid-in-dying, have been researched in the extensive literature that exists (both in print and in cyberspace) on these subjects and are presented with the study. }ii> The study tries to show that a competent adult in certain grim circumstances should have an inalienable human right, if not a constitutional one, to request assisted euthanasia or aid-in-dying or assistance in ending their lives. }ii> Such assistance must be subject to peer review, after careful assessment by a multidisciplinary team in the healing [both physical and spiritual] professions This paper will try to determine whether the actionalisation of voluntary assisted suicide or assisted euthanasia is murder or an act of compassion and empathy performed out of respect for a fellow human being's autonomy and in deference to their right to self-determination and self-realisation. ~ The relevance of this situation is that aid-in-dying is becoming one of the major, moral, religious, philosophical and bio-medical dilemmas at this time. ~ The author's position is that it is neither just nor ethical to prevent a mentallycompetent human being, who is tormented by agonising, incurable terminal physical or irremediable paralysing disease, from deciding to chose to die when he/she can no longer bear the torment and asking for professional assistance to effect this. This relief should be given not only to those who are able to make an enduring, informed contemporaneous decision, but also to those who [when they still had decision-making capacity] had previously made a considered informed advance directive about the use of ordinary and extraordinary medical methods of sustaining a life that had become merely an existence.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie is onderneem om te evalueer of 'n bevoegde, volwasse mens wat 'n onverduurbare en ongeneesbare bestaan het a.g.v. 'n ongeneesbare, folterende of vernietigende siekte, 'n morele, persoonlike of burgerlike reg het om daardie lewe te beeïndig of hulp te vra om dit te laat beeïndig, ten einde die dood op 'n menswaardige wyse tegemoet te gaan. ~ Die regverdigbaarheid van bogenoemde hulp kan slegs bepaal word as dit volg op die herhaalde en vrywillige versoeke van iemand wat nie, wanneer hy/sy dit versoek, ly aan 'n geestessiekte nie, wat bevoeg is of wat so 'n geskrewe of mondelinge versoek, met getuies, gemaak het terwyl die persoon kompetent was. ~ Die studie handel nie oor bystand-in-sterfte, aktief of passief, waar dit uitgevoer word op fisies of psigies ernstig gestremde pasgebore babas met 'n skrale kans op oorlewing nie; ook nie oor genadedood ter verligting van kwaadaardige of verlammende siekte in diegene met lewenslange [anoksiese, kongenitale, inflammatoriese of traumatiese] geestelike ongesteldhede, wat nog nooit besluitnemende kapasiteit gehad het nie. ~ Die studie ondersoek nie gevalle van bystand-met-sterfte waar inkompetente persone wat ly aan seniliteit, Alzheimer se siekte, of permanente vegetatiewe toestande a.g.v. brein patologie n.a.v. anoksiese, sirkulatoriese, infektiewe, kwaadaardige of traumatiese gebeure, nie direk gevra het vir genadedood of nooit die voorkeur vir geassisteerde genadedood uitgespreek het nie. Die doel van hierdie studie is om die morele saak van diegene ten gunste van die wettiging van Vrywillige Geassisteerde Genadedood, ook bekend as Geassisteerde Genadedood, te stel en om praktiese sowel as eties verantwoordbare voorstelle te maak vir beleid en optrede wat kan bydra tot die oplos van die morele dilemma wat dokters daagliks in die gesig staar wanneer hulle deur geestelik bevoegde pasiënte wat ly aan ongeneesbare, kwaadaardige of verlammende siektes, of die folterende simptome van die finale stadium van Verworwe Immuniteits Gebrek Sindroom [VIGS], gevra word vir bystand in die beeïndiging van hulle lewens. ~ Die studie sal die belangriker besware van diegene aanspreek wat teen die wettiging is van geassisteerde genadedood vir geestelik bevoegde terminale pasiënte wat ongeneesbaar ly of van dehumaniserende ongeneesbare finale stadium siektes en wat naby is aan 'n onafwendbare dood. ~ Die insigte van filosowe, teoloë, dokters en sosioloë oor bystand-met-sterfte en selfmoord, is nagevors in die wye literatuur beskikbaar is (beide in druk en kuberruimte) oor hierdie onderwerpe en word saam met die studie angebied. ~ Die studie probeer aantoon dat 'n bevoegde volwassene in sekere erge omstandighede 'n onvervreembare mensereg, indien nie 'n konstitusionele reg nie, behoort te hê om bystand tydens genadedood te versoek. ~ Sulke bystand moet onderworpe wees aan groepsevaluasie, na versigtige ondersoek deur 'n multi-dissiplinêre span in die gesondheidsprofessies [beide fisies en psigies]. Die studie sal probeer bepaal of die uitvoering van vrywillige geassisteerde selfmoord of geassisteerde genadedood moord is, of 'n aksie van empatie, uitgevoer uit respek vir 'n medemens se outonomie, sy/haar reg tot selfdeterminasie en self-realisasie. )lo- Die relevansie van hierdie situasie lê daarin dat bystand-met-sterfte besig is om een van die belangrikste morele, religieuse, filosofiese en biomediese dilemmas van ons tyd te word. )lo- Die outeur se posisie is dat dit nie regverdig of eties is om te verhoed dat 'n geestelik bevoegde mens, wat ly aan folterende, ongeneesbare terminale fisiese of ongeneesbare verlammende siekte, self kies om te sterf wanneer hy/sy nie meer die lyding kan verdra nie en vir professionele bystand vra om dit uit te voer. Die verligting behoort gegee te word, nie net aan diegene wat in staat is om 'n bindende en ingeligte besluit te maak nie, maar ook aan -diegene wat [toe hulle nog besluitnemende kapasitiet gehad het] vroeër 'n oorweegde, ingeligte vroegtydige versoek gemaak het aangaande die gebruik van gewone en buitengewone mediese metodes vir die verlenging van 'n lewe wat bloot 'n bestaan geword het.
Kaur, Jaskiran. "Attitudes of Suicide Prevention Workers toward Euthanasia." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37720.
Full textChandrasekhara, Seetha. "Palliative Treatment and Euthanasia for Psychiatric Illnesses." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/425660.
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When looking at the natural course of life, death is the natural conclusion. Majority of the time, people do not choose when and how they die. Death and dying are topics that are difficult to discuss for many individuals. However, when one decides to choose the context of their death, it raises many ethical considerations. Psychiatry, as a field, looks at the psychodynamics of death and dying for individuals. It is also poised to comment on the growing use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia for psychiatric disorders. Through a review of the literature, theories in psychiatry regarding the dying process are used to better understand an individual's choice for choosing euthanasia as a medical intervention to end their suffering from a long-standing psychiatric illness. The use of palliative care in conjunction with psychiatry is also explored.
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Godfrey, Belinda Arjona. "Hospice nurses' attitudes on active voluntary euthanasia." FIU Digital Commons, 1995. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3944.
Full textMotlani, Rishad Raffi. "Islam, euthanasia and Western Christianity : drawing on Western Christian thinking to develop an expanded Western Sunni Muslim perspective on euthanasia." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3480.
Full textChinweze, Madu Benedict. "Euthanasia: A Critical Analysis of the Physician's Role." Thesis, Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2914.
Full textSometimes relatives have taken me on one side and told me they cannot bear it any more:"Isn't there something you can do to end it all?"More often requests for euthanasia have come from those who are ill. I remember visiting a man with lung cancer. He asked his wife to leave the room. As she closed the door he leaned over and grabbed my arm. "I want to die", he said. "Please can you give me something." He felt a burden on his wife and wanted euthanasia for himself .
Often in their duty, physicians are faced with euthanasia requests of this kind. Death is the inevitable fate of all humans but how we die is an issue of great concern for many of us. Fear of pain, loss of control and being a burden to our loved ones are common issues surrounding dying and death of patients. This has led to varying circumstances of patients’ death, and of a significant remark, the involvement of physicians in bringing about these deaths through an act of euthanasia. Euthanasia involves the intentional killing of a patient by the direct intervention of a physician (or another party) ostensibly for the good of the patient, and the most common form that this comes is through lethal injection. The ethics of euthanasia and of a physicians’ involvement have been a contentious issue from the beginnings of medicine. This for the most part is as a result that the ethical code of physicians has long been based in part on the Hippocratic Oath, which requires physicians to “do no harm”. Thus, the focus of this work will be to look into the role of the physician in ending a patient’s life through the act of euthanasia. Although necessary but not a central point of this work to merely develop arguments for and against the justification of euthanasia and a physician’s involvement in the act, but to critically view the role played by physicians in ending the life of patients through euthanasia in contrast with their medical obligation. The issue of euthanasia raises ethical questions for physicians. Is it morally right or wrong for a physician to end the life of his or her patient? And this therefore will be the focus of this work.
DeLeeuw, Jamie L. "Animal shelter dogs: factors predicting adoption versus euthanasia." Diss., Wichita State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3647.
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Makowska, Inez Joanna. "Alternatives to carbon dioxide euthanasia for laboratory rats." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3091.
Full textMoody, Carly. "Current methods of mouse euthanasia : refinements and aversion." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45450.
Full textChowdhury, Rezawana. "The role religion plays in attitudes toward euthanasia." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/671.
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Burdett, E. "The continent of murder : disability and the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme in the euthanasia debates of Britain and the United States, 1945-present." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1332887/.
Full textRockman, Priscilla. "Euthanasia : A study of its origin, forms and aspects." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för kultur-, religions- och utbildningsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12414.
Full textChidoori, Rumbidzai Elizabeth Portia. "Should passive euthanasia be made legal in South Africa?" Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/253.
Full textMorin, Benoît. "Revisiting euthanasia and assisted suicide, the issue of suffering." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63746.pdf.
Full textBiggs, Hazel. "Death with dignity : legal and ethical aspects of euthanasia." Thesis, University of Kent, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245597.
Full textGrove, Lourens Botha. "Framework for the implementation of euthanasia in South Africa." Diss., Pretoria ; [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07102008-131712/.
Full textThieme, Matthias. "Einstellungen zur Sterbehilfe bei unheilbar erkrankten Patienten- Eine prospektive multizentrische Untersuchung auf sächsischen Palliativstationen." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-129708.
Full textHiley, Victoria. "In pursuit of a good death responding to changing sensibilities in the context of the right to die debate /." Connect to full text, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2614.
Full textTitle from title frame (viewed on 22nd September, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Juridical Studies to the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2008. Bibliography: leaves 248-295.
Rossi, Shakila A. "The End : A thesis focusing on Euthanasia and The Patient." Thesis, Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-74.
Full textSuffering from a terminal illness, or being chronically sick or severely disabled is not pleasant, which most of us will never experience life like this. However, there are people who are living in precisely that kind of constant, excruciating pain, agony and misery, 24 hours of the day, 365 days a year, stuck in a “living Hell” with no way of ending their enforced but unwanted torment – other than the highly controversial ‘therapy’ of euthanasia.
Those of us who are relatively healthy have a choice in how and when we end our lives. We can decide to wait until our life ends naturally, or we can speed up the process by committing suicide in whatever manner we choose. But, because of their illness or disability, the patients discussed in this thesis are being denied that same choice – because they must ask for help to die, they have had their right to decide matters such as when, where and how to go, for themselves taken away from them by people who believe that they know better than the patient what is best for them.
In Chapter 1, I will clarify some of the many, often contradicting, definitions and ideas associated with euthanasia.
In Chapter 2, because death is a very personal subject and everyone has different reasons why they want to die, I have used extracts from two very personal letters explaining why they sought euthanasia.
In Chapter 3, I will show how a patient considering euthanasia can use two Ends and Means arguments (Utilitarianism and Deontology) to decide if killing themselves would be the moral course of action to end their suffering. I will also discuss the morality of euthanasia eastern and western society.
In Chapter 4, the discussion turns to who would be the best person to help the patient die. I will examine how euthanasia can comply with various professional and personal codes of conduct and discuss the ideal character of the would-be euthaniser.
In Chapter 5 (the final chapter) I will conclude by using the information from the previous chapters to answer two important questions:
1. Whether it is ethical for a patient to even be thinking about euthanasia in the first place.
2. Who is (ethically) the best person to ask to kill the patient
This thesis is not about whether or not euthanasia should be legalised (as I will explain – euthanasia is already going on, albeit illegally) but to discuss the morality of asking someone else to go against all matter of strictly enforced and deeply ingrained legal, moral and professional rules imposed by society in order to help the patient die.
McCutcheon, Kelly A. "Grief resulting from Euthanasia and natural death of companion animals." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0005/MQ42576.pdf.
Full textKemp, Nicholas. "The history of the British euthanasia movement c. 1870-1970." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313110.
Full textTurner, Wendy G. "Euthanasia of the companion animal: understanding the pet owner's experience." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1300985931.
Full textTurner, Wendy G. "Euthanasia of the companion animal :|bunderstanding the pet owner's experience /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487951214937499.
Full textFernandes, Ashley K. "Euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the philosophical anthropology of Karol Wojtyla." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/436215376/viewonline.
Full textOpara, Ignatius Chidiebere. "Voluntary Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide : A Critical Ethical Comparative Analysis." Thesis, Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2915.
Full textThe two most controversial ends of life decisions are those in which physicians help patients take their lives and when the physician deliberately and directly intervenes to end the patients’ life upon his request. These are often referred to as voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide have continued to be controversial public issues. This controversy has agitated the minds of great thinkers including ethicians, physicians, psychologists, moralists, philosophers even the patient himself. Hence the physician, patient, the public and policy makers have recently had to face several difficult questions.
Is it morally right to end the life of the patients? Is there any moral difference at all between Voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide? Should a terminally ill patient be allowed to take his life and should the medical profession have the option of helping the patient die. Should voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide be legalised at all? And what actually will be the legal and moral implications if they are allowed.
In a bid to find a lasting solution to these moral problems and questions has led to two different strong positions viz opponents and proponents of voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. The centre of my argument in this work is not to develop new general arguments for or against voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide but to make a critical ethical comparative analysis of voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. This is the focus of my work. The sole aim of this work is neither to solely condemn nor to support voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide but to critically analyze the two since we live in a world of pluralism.
Rubin, Arielle. "Ideology of Euthanasia in Nazi Germany and the Roles of Psychiatry." The University of Arizona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626593.
Full textLavery, Jim. "Losing yourself to AIDS, the meaning of euthanasia and assisted suicide." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0005/NQ41203.pdf.
Full textGraham, Paul J. "Reaffirming a moral distinction, removing life-sustaining treatment is not euthanasia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ65490.pdf.
Full textKrapf, Elizabeth Maria. "Euthanasia, the Ethics of Patient Care and the Language of Propaganda." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/606.
Full textAgnes, Laurence. "Je suis personne." Thesis, Paris Est, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PESC2080.
Full textIs the disabled person a person ? the question may seem scandalous but it is essential when you notice the gap between the media exposure and the stalking of which it is the object. Paradigm of lack, the handicapped person is also a contemporary monster, so named to differentiate himself from him. With Ulysses, we will begin to think about the concept of person in its relation to logos to continue with Boethius, Kant to note, by the actuality of eugenics, by the invention of the concepts of human person and human non-human. nobody, the persistence of our doubt as to the person's status of the disabled. Care as a tool of encounter with the person and in particular with the person with a disability helps us to reconnect with a certain sacrality of the body and therefore to reconsider the being of the person being cared for. The study of concern with Heidegger, then, shows the link he has with man, with death and with time, the last bastion to the control of man over himself. If the care makes it possible to meet the person, there remains a certain ontological fragility of the handicap which puts him in permanent danger. Despite this persistent fragility, is it really possible not to recognize the person in every human being with a disability ?