Subsequent to an intensive three-year period of reflection, the CMQ is revealing its perspective and conclusions today regarding end-of-life care and euthanasia. The CMQ embraces the point of view of the patient who is confronting imminent and inevitable death. In such a situation, the patient looks to their physician and generally requests that they be able to die without undue suffering and with dignity. Neither surveys, nor attorneys, nor politicians can properly advise the physician and the patient facing this situation. In the majority of cases, the patient and their doctor find the appropriate analgesia that respects the ethical obligation of physicians not to preserve life at any cost, but rather, when the death of a patient appears to be inevitable, to act so that it occurs with dignity and to ensure that the patient obtains the appropriate support and relief.
La Commission Consultative Nationale d'Ethique pour les sciences de la Vie et de la Santé (C.N.E.) fut mise en place par le gouvernement à la date du 9 septembre 1988. Elle ne put faire débuter toutefois ses travaux qu'en 1989. C'est en s'orientant sur cette date que la Commission a commémoré son quinzième anniversaire en novembre 2004. La Commission Nationale d'Ethique se compose de 15 membres, dont un président et un vice-président. Selon ses statuts, les membres sont nommées par le Gouvernement pour des mandats renouvelables de cinq ans. La mission de la Commission Nationale d'Ethique consiste notamment à étudier, soit de sa propre initiative, soit à la demande du Gouvernement, les aspects éthiques tant des problèmes divers, soulevés dans le domaine des sciences de la vie et de la santé que des solutions et des moyens à mettre en oeuvre.
The Monday Interview: A growing number of medical professionals are supporting the idea of assisted dying. Dr Ann McPherson – who herself has only months to live – tells Jeremy Laurance why
The Emerging Science and Bioethics Advisory Committee (ESBAC) was the main UK advisory body on emerging healthcare scientific developments and their ethical, legal, social and economic implications. It was sponsored by the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for the Department of Health (DH), England. Its membership included representation from all UK Health Departments for whom ESBAC also provided advice. ESBAC also provided a forum to consider and develop coordinated advice across the wider science, health and academic communities to help set priorities in response to new developments.
This End of life guidance covers three main issues: contemporaneous and advance refusal of treatment; withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging medical treatment; assisted dying - euthanasia and assisted suicide.
The European Association of Health Law (EAHL) aims to strengthen the health and human rights interface throughout Europe, and to serve as an indispensable source of advice and guidance for the future of health law and policies in Europe. The guiding principle of the EAHL is the achievement of academic excellence and the improvement of health law practice. Its overarching purpose is to bring together health lawyers from around the Council of Europe to discuss and collaborate on issues of importance in the development of health law and policies.
Exit International is the world's leading Voluntary Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide information and advocacy organisation. A registered non-profit organisation, Exit was founded in 1997 by Philip Nitschke. In 1996, Dr Nitschke became the first physician to administer a legal, lethal voluntary injection, under the world's first right to die law - the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act of the Northern Territory of Australia.
Un débat interne à l’ensemble de l’Institution ordinale a été conduit avant cette expression publique. Il en résulte que la fin de la vie d’une personne dans ces situations implique profondément le corps médical selon les principes éthiques de bienfaisance et d’humanité. L’Ordre national des médecins propose donc de promouvoir une meilleure connaissance de la loi Leonetti et d’envisager des améliorations susceptibles de répondre à des situations exceptionnelles. L’Ordre national des médecins apportera sa contribution au débat sociétal quant à l’euthanasie délibérée et au suicide assisté.
The Galton Institute exists to promote the public understanding of human heredity and to facilitate informed debate about the ethical issues raised by advances in reproductive technology. It also publishes studies in the historical development of these topics. The Institute is a registered charity and does not seek to advocate particular applications of scientific understanding or reproductive technology, only to ensure that those taking decisions do so in the light of all relevant facts and after consideration of all relevant issues. A fuller statement of the Institute's objectives is available elsewhere on this site.
The GMC has responded to the consultation documents from the Directors of Public Prosecution for England and Wales and for Northern Ireland, explaining why the GMC does not take a position on assisted suicide.
The setting up of the National Bioethics Committee followed resolution no. 6-00038 approved on 5 July 1988 in which the Chamber of Deputies, among other things, committed the Government to promoting an international level comparison on the state of the art of biomedical research and genetic engineering which might serve as a valid point of reference for future choices in which the progress of science can be reconciled with the respect for human freedom and dignity
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