If assisted suicide were legal, people would not have to go to extremes or take brutal measures to end their suffering. ... Because assisted suicide is not legal in California, Californians are forced to go to extreme measures if they wish to obtain physician assisted suicide. ... All three of these states have strict guidelines and requirements to ensure that there is no misuse of assisted suicide; key restriction that these states have and common--and would have in common with the California's ELOA--is that, in order to receive assisted suicide in their state, you must be a terminally i...

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When the Oregon physician-assisted suicide statute became law, nurses opposed to suicide on moral grounds were concerned about their ability to exercise their professional autonomy without abandoning their patient. ... The association's White Paper on Assisted Suicide provides guidelines for ethically withdrawing from a case without abandoning the patient for nurses who do not want to be involved, as well as guidelines for nurses willing to care for the patient who is committing physician-assisted suicide.12 Although the principle of respect for autonomy is of major importance, other ...

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The Qur"an justifies medical advances and prohibition against both suicide and euthanasia. ... Over the past decade, Organizations such as the Islamic Organization for medical Science hold regular conferences to deal with issues concerning transplantations, brain death patients, as well as assisted conception, and technology in the intensive care unit. ... Treating illness and preserving the health of individual takes precedence over any right to withhold treatment or to commit suicide. Like most traditions, suicide is prohibited as well as euthanasia, abortion of a fetus when the life of t...

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Generally, healthcare professionals' training has not included the development of skills to assist them in caring for families at these difficult and vulnerable times. Clinicians' involvement and support at this critical time can have a very positive effect on the family's experience, and may help prevent some of problems that are associated with poor coping (decline in health; inappropriate usage of healthcare; increased risk of depression; sleep disruption; increased consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and sedatives; increased suicide risk; and death).[6,7] In addition to clinic...

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