This article captures the implications of technology supportive of high level autonomous
vehicles eclipsing the capacity of regulators to respond. To date, policy makers and industry …

Abstract Background and Aims Euthanasia is a controversial issue related to the right to die.
Although euthanasia is mostly requested by terminally sick individuals, even in societies …

Some form of assisted dying (voluntary euthanasia and/or assisted suicide) is lawful in the
Netherlands, Belgium, Oregon, and Switzerland. In order for individual instances of assisted …

This paper provides a broad discussion about voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Australia.
The discussion examines the history of the VAD debate in Australia and whether public …

Principlism is an ethical framework that has dominated bioethical discourse for the past 50
years. There are differing perspectives on its proper scope and limits. In this article, we …

Addressing the fundamental anthropocentrism of law, the author argues that two influential
families of thinkers have played a critical role in sustaining it: secular rationalists and …

Materials and Methods: Questionnaire based survey among consenting patients and
physicians. Results: The majority of our physicians and patients did not support active …

The siege guns of the forces for change to euthanasia and assisted suicide laws have been
pounding for decades, but the longstanding proscription on these practices has held out in …

Assisting or hastening death is a dilemma with many ethical as well as practical issues
facing healthcare practitioners in most countries worldwide now. Various arguments for and …

This study aims to explore circumstances affecting patients' euthanasia and medically
assisted suicide (MAS) decisions from the perspectives of patients, relatives, and healthcare …