FAQS: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

 

FACT SHEETS

 

Advance Directives

Living Wills and Medical Agents in South Australia (SAVES link)

Appointing Your Own Legal Agent in South Australia (SAVES link)

Medical Treatment and the Law in South Australia (SAVES link)

Assisted Suicide

Assisted Suicide in Switzerland (Link -- SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Physician-Assisted Suicide in Dutch Psychiatric Practice (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Patients' Most Commonly Expressed Motives (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Assessing Patients' Motives for Seeking Hastened Death (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Australia

The Northern Territory Act (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in Australia and the Netherlands (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Cancer, Dying from

Dying of Cancer (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Double Effect

Double Effect

Also "Double Effect" (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Euthanasia, the Case For

The Case for Voluntary Euthanasia (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Euthanasia, Responses to Arguments Against

Brief Answers to Five Objections (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

The Fear of Abuse Objection (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Euthanasia, World Practices

The Northern Territory Act (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in Australia and the Netherlands (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands - An Update (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Family Issues

Patients' Most Commonly Expressed Motives (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Assessing Patients' Motives for Seeking Hastened Death (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Family Support and Underlying Family Issues (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Listening for Contradictory Values (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Hippocratic Oath

The Hippocratic Oath (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

What about the Hippocratic Oath? (Adapted from VES --The Voluntary Euthanasia Society of England and Wales)

Hospice

Hospice Description & History

Comfort & Palliative Care

Motives for Requesting Aid in Dying

Patients' Most Commonly Expressed Motives (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Assessing Patients' Motives for Seeking Hastened Death (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Netherlands

Voluntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Voluntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands - An Update (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Opinions on Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Medical Opinion in South Australia (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Nursing Opinion in South Australia (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Public Opinion in South Australia (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Oregon

Oregon's Doctor Assisted Suicide Law (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Assisted Suicide in Switzerland (Link -- SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Physician-Assisted Suicide in Dutch Psychiatric Practice (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

Recognizing, Understanding, and Responding to Patients' Requests for Hastened Death: Tools for Health Professionals© (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Patients' Most Commonly Expressed Motives (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Assessing Patients' Motives for Seeking Hastened Death (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Requests for Aid in Dying

The Need for Effective Communication (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Patients' Requests and Physicians' Responses (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Recognizing and Understanding Requests (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Patients' Most Commonly Expressed Motives (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Assessing Patients' Motives for Seeking Hastened Death (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Family Support and Underlying Family Issues (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Listening for Contradictory Values (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Issues of Rationality and Competence (Link -- The Aid in Dying Communication Project)

Slippery Slope

Background on the Slippery Slope Argument

The Slippery Slope Objection (Adapted from SAVES -- South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society)

More on the Alleged Netherlands "Slippery Slope"

Terminal Sedation

Terminal Sedation

Termination of Treatment

Termination of Treatment (coming soon)

Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment

Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment (coming soon)