Sentence examples for request for death from inspiring English sources
The patient should have to make an active request for death, signing a form saying clearly that this is what he wants.
In particular, the regulatory panel — chaired by Wim Distelmans, a leading proponent of euthanasia who conducts the procedure himself — defends the one-month waiting period required between the time a mentally ill or otherwise cognitively impaired person puts his or her signature on a written request for death, and the time it may be carried out.
On this premise, deactivation of a permanent medical device in a life-terminating act, upon an elective request for death, is considered a patient's right.
A request for death may be an expression of fear, of being 'kept alive' by technological treatments, or an expression of depression, which could respond to treatment.
Acknowledging the legal framework he must work within, Robert mentions the difficulty of acceding to a request for death, but it may also be "harder" for Robert because the decision comes with added emotional pressure.
This is similar to the situation in Japan where, although the Japan Medical Association has officially declared that a patient's advance request for death with dignity should be respected [ 10], advance directives have no legal standing.
Conspiracy theorists as well as journalists overwhelmed the town clerk's office with so many requests for death certificates and burial locations that the clerk is now working with state representatives to draft a bill that will limit the public's access to vital records.
This is most appropriately addressed through the requests for death certificates.
– What has been your experience in receiving patient requests (for death) to end that kind of suffering?
The distinction between allowing the patient to die and physician-assisted death is pivotal to the moral and legal status of elective requests for death by discontinuing destination cardiac and/or ventilatory medical devices in patients who are not imminently dying.
The judge also rejected the prosecution's request for the death penalty.
