Euthanasia, Passive - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Stopping eating and drinking.

30 Aug 2009 Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, in which death occurs within one to three weeks of beginning the fast, is increasingly explored in the literature and mainstream media as an option to be discussed with "decisionally capable," suffering ... Read more...

Are physicians' recommendations to limit life support beneficial or burdensome? Bringing empirical data to the debate.

2 Jun 2009 RATIONALE: Although there is a growing belief that physicians should routinely provide a recommendation to surrogates during deliberations about withdrawing life support, there is a paucity of empirical data on surrogates' perspectives on this ... Read more...

Attitudes toward neonatal intensive care treatment of preterm infants with a high risk of developing long-term disabilities.

30 May 2009 OBJECTIVES: To assess (1) the differences in attitudes toward disabilities of 3 groups of subjects involved in neonatal care decision-making: health care workers, mothers of term infants, and parents of preterm infants, and (2) the impact of subject ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Euthanasia, Passive - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Stopping eating and drinking. 30 Aug 2009
• Are physicians' recommendations to limit life support beneficial or burdensome? Bringing empirical data to the debate. 2 Jun 2009
• Attitudes toward neonatal intensive care treatment of preterm infants with a high risk of developing long-term disabilities. 30 May 2009
• [Withholding and withdrawing therapy--how does the physician make a decision?] 11 May 2009
• Analysis of enacted difficult conversations in neonatal intensive care. 13 Jan 2009
• Dying well. 30 Oct 2008
• Dying well. 30 Oct 2008
• Giving permission. 25 Oct 2008
• End-of-life care and organ procurement for transplantation: palliation or euthanasia? 30 Jul 2008
• 'I can't help you with that': when terminally ill patients wish to hasten their dying,nurses can--and should--help. 30 Jul 2008
• The sound of silence. 28 Feb 2008
• [Indication for terminal sedation] 19 Nov 2007
• A pilot audit of the process of end-of-life decision-making in the intensive care unit. 30 May 2007
• [Compassionate care for terminally ill term and preterm infants] 30 Mar 2007
• Family member involvement in hastened death. 30 Jan 2007
• End-of-life decisions and old-age mortality: A cross-country analysis. 29 Nov 2006
• Varying approaches to end-of-life care. 29 Jun 2006
• Withdrawal of care in Japan. 29 Jun 2006
• Do-not-resuscitate decisions in six European countries. 30 May 2006
• Families and withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy: state of the science. 29 Apr 2006

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Technical information about 'Euthanasia, Passive'

Definition: Failing to prevent death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy by the withdrawal or withholding of life-prolonging treatment.

Descriptor UI: D005066

Alternative terms: Euthanasia, Passive; Passive Euthanasia; Negative Euthanasia; Allowing to Die; Euthanasia, Negative;

Related Mesh Headings: Resuscitation Orders; Withholding Treatment;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence;

Tree Number: E02.760.905.199.500; E02.760.952.500; N02.421.585.905.199.625; N02.421.585.952.500;

History Note: 90(78); was see under EUTHANASIA 1978-89

Technical Notes: human only; differentiate X ref ALLOWING TO DIE from RIGHT TO DIE