Sentence examples for competent request from inspiring English sources

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that it is agreed that we should respect a person's competent request for medical assistance with dying (e.g., so as to enable her to achieve her autonomously chosen goal of an easeful death).

Similarly, if a doctor's view of her moral or professional responsibilities is at odds with her patient's competent request for euthanasia, provision should be made, where feasible, for the transfer of the patient to the care of a doctor who faces no such conflict.

In this paper the definition of euthanasia is: " A doctor intentionally killing a person by the administration of drugs, at that person's voluntary and competent request" [ 2].

Is there a progression to non-voluntary termination of life, when patients are killed without their competent request, such as for infants and demented?

" PAS is a doctor intentionally helping a person to commit suicide by providing drugs for self-administration, at that person's voluntary and competent request" [ 2].

Nonvoluntary termination of life is the administration of medication to end the life of a patient who is unable to give competent request for this at the time of administration.

Notwithstanding this response, at least some will wish to question why medical assistance with dying should be restricted to those covered by, in particular, the first three conditions set out above in section 2. If people's competent requests for medically assisted death should be respected why impose any restrictions at all on who may have access to medically assisted death?

This law authorises a physician to prescribe a lethal dosage of drug, usually a short acting barbiturate, to a competent, requesting patient for the purposes of self administration.

The Dutch patients' organization N.P.V., a Christian group with 66,000 members, strongly criticizes the current application of the law, saying the practice of euthanasia has been extended to encompass patients with dementia and other conditions who may not by definition be competent to request help in dying.

I have less than 7 days to find an affordable, but competent, lawyer, request the default be put aside, and respond to their accusations.

The only exception is when a person's life is so degraded as to call into question her rational nature, albeit he thinks it unlikely that anyone in that position will remain competent to request assistance with dying.