Health
Report recommends France legalise 'accelerated deaths'
France should allow doctors to "accelerate the coming of death" for terminally ill patients, a report to President Francois Hollande recommended Tuesday.
Dec 18, 2012
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Physicians who prefer hospice care for themselves more likely to discuss it with patients
Although the vast majority of physicians participating in a multiregional study indicated that they would personally enroll in hospice care if they received a terminal cancer diagnosis, less than one-third would discuss hospice ...
Dec 16, 2013
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Judge tosses California law allowing life-ending drugs
Betsy Davis threw herself a party before becoming one of the first people to use a California law allowing her to take her own life in 2016.
May 16, 2018
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Scotland tables proposed assisted dying law
A bill to make assisted dying legal was introduced in the devolved Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Thursday, with a poll suggesting overwhelming support for changing the law.
Mar 28, 2024
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Judge blocked California law on life-ending drugs. Now what?
A judge has thrown out a 2016 California law allowing terminally ill people to end their lives after finding that the Legislature unconstitutionally approved it during a special session.
May 30, 2018
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Great differences in the view of withdrawing futile intensive care
The views among physicians and the general public when it comes to deciding whether to withhold or withdraw treatment of terminally ill patients differ greatly. However, in a hypothetical case study at Umeå University in ...
Jan 19, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Can dignity affect survival of terminally ill patients?
A report in the current issue of P&P by a group of Portoguese investigators headed by Antonio Barbosa applies a new psychotherapeutic approach, dignity therapy, to terminally ill patients.
Feb 10, 2015
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Maryland lawmakers file 'end of life options' bill
Supporters of allowing terminally ill patients in unbearable pain to end their lives by self-ingesting doctor-prescribed drugs said Wednesday they hope to pass legislation in Maryland this year now that the state's medical ...
Jan 25, 2017
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Right-to-die bill to be considered by full DC Council
The full D.C. Council will get its first chance to consider a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with the help of a doctor.
Oct 18, 2016
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DC's right-to-die law takes effect
Doctors in the nation's capital may now begin the process of prescribing life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients.
Jul 18, 2017
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