A Role for Judges in Assisted Dying

Medically provoked death, whether euthanasia or assisted suicide, is a common issue for discussion in various forums, participants coming from widely differing fields of knowledge, among who are, of course, doctors. Substantial legal differences exist in Europe on this issue and in an ever-wider Eur...

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Autores principales: Castelló, Ana, Francès, Francesc, Verdú, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23908717
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description Medically provoked death, whether euthanasia or assisted suicide, is a common issue for discussion in various forums, participants coming from widely differing fields of knowledge, among who are, of course, doctors. Substantial legal differences exist in Europe on this issue and in an ever-wider Europe, it is essential, for practical reasons, that legislation be standardised. We would like to propose possible regulations that would provide effective safeguards in the application of euthanasia or assisted suicide.
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spelling pubmed-37138912013-08-01 A Role for Judges in Assisted Dying Castelló, Ana Francès, Francesc Verdú, Fernando J Med Ethics Hist Med Articles Medically provoked death, whether euthanasia or assisted suicide, is a common issue for discussion in various forums, participants coming from widely differing fields of knowledge, among who are, of course, doctors. Substantial legal differences exist in Europe on this issue and in an ever-wider Europe, it is essential, for practical reasons, that legislation be standardised. We would like to propose possible regulations that would provide effective safeguards in the application of euthanasia or assisted suicide. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2009-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3713891/ /pubmed/23908717 Text en © 2009 Ana Castelló, Francesc Francès and Fernando Verdú; licensee Tehran Univ. Med. Sci. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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