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The BMA has long advised doctors - for moral as well as legal reasons - to avoid actions that might be interpreted as assisting, facilitating or encouraging a suicide attempt. This means not giving patients advice on what constitutes a fatal dose or on anti-emetics in relation to a planned overdose, not suggesting the option of suicide abroad nor writing medical reports specifically to facilitate assisted dying abroad, nor on any other aspects of planning a suicide.
BAUDOUIN, Jean-Louis, Patrick A. Molinari, in cooperation with Michèle Rivet, Burleigh Trevor-Deutsch, Derek J. Jones and Jean-François Brault, Toward a Canadian Advisory Council on Biomedical Ethics: A Study Paper prepared for the Law Reform Commission of Canada, Ottawa: Law Reform Commission of Canada, 1990, viii, 57 p. (series; Protection of Life Series; Study Papers), ISBN: 0662578309
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.
The present paper constitutes the input of Alzheimer Europe and its member organisations to the ongoing discussions within Europe about advance directives (in the context of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia). It is the result of discussions carried out in a multidisciplinary group, comprising experts in the field of psychiatry, neurology, pharmacology, psychology, law and ethics, in collaboration with the Board of Alzheimer Europe and its member associations. Please see Annex 1 for the list of participants of the working group. Alzheimer Europe’s position on advance directives was guided by several general principles and was influenced by principles contained in pre-existing European or international documents. Please refer to section D for details. On the basis of these principles and of a review of current literature concerning issues linked to the use of advance directives, Alzheimer Europe has developed the following position with regard to advance directives.
UK doctors have set up a new group for health professionals to challenge the BMA and a number of royal colleges in their stance against assisted dying for terminally ill people and to push for a change in the law. The group, called Dignity in Dying: Healthcare Professionals for Change, was set up by Ann McPherson, who is dying of pancreatic cancer, after an article she wrote in the BMJ last year generated interest in giving people who are dying the option of help to end their lives when they chose (BMJ 2009;339:b2827 doi:10.1136/bmj.b2827). Dr McPherson, who is a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said she wants the royal colleges to have a more informed debate about 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.
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747 - 761(2013)Special section: The Programming Languages track at the 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011) & Special section on Agent-oriented Design Methods and Programming Techniques for Distributed Computing in Dynamic and Complex Environments.