Sentence examples for request assisted suicide from inspiring English sources

Treating patients who request assisted suicide.

In Switzerland, patients can request assisted suicide.

But it turns out these aren't the reasons most people in the U.S. request assisted suicide.

It merely recognizes the liberty to request assisted suicide and leaves it to each third party (whether a health-care professional or not) to accept such a request.

The infrequency with which individual doctors are involved in PAS reflects two factors: First, most patients do not have a terminal illness, and the vast majority of those who do, do not request assisted suicide.

The range of boundary conceptualisations was particularly illustrated when examining the interface between mental state and mental capacity, with the relationship between the decision to request assisted suicide and depression a particular area of inconsistency.

For example, it advises doctors to explore fully why the patient is requesting assisted suicide.

His 1991 New York Times Magazine piece, "A Question of Mercy," about an AIDS patient requesting assisted suicide, inspired a play of the same title by David Rabe, the Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter.

Ideas about 'reasonable' and 'unreasonable' reasons for requesting assisted suicide further emphasise the subjectivity potentially inherent in the process.

In Oregon it has been shown that depression is not always appropriately identified in patients requesting assisted suicide [ 38].

Other themes identified include processes of mental capacity assessment and risks of mental capacity assessment for people requesting assisted suicide and will be presented elsewhere.