Mental Illness, Natural Death, and Non-Voluntary Passive Euthanasia

When it is considered to be in their best interests, withholding and withdrawing life-supporting treatment from non-competent physically ill or injured patients - non-voluntary passive euthanasia, as it has been called - is generally accepted. A central reason in support of the procedures relates to...

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Main Author: Varelius, Jukka (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2016]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2016, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 635-648
RelBib Classification:NCH Medical ethics
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B physician-assisted suicide
B Mental Illness
B Death
B Passive Euthanasia
B Psychiatry
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