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![]() | Battin, Margaret P. | Report of the committee on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia | In 1994 the Board of the American Association of Suicidology selected a Committee on Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. It was asked to review the issues emerging in the growing controversy concerning euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, palliative care, and the medical treatment of dyin... | Suicidology; Palliative care | 1996 |
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![]() | Battin, Margaret P. | Nicole: suicide and terminal illness | The terminally ill person who plans suicide poses a clinical dilemma in suicidology. Issues of rational suicide are complicated. Although experts (Battin, 1991; Hoff, 1989; Motto, 1972; Pretzel, 1984; Saunders & Valente, 1988) recognize rational suicide, the prevailing paradigm of suicide preventio... | Terminal illness; Suicidology | 1993 |
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![]() | Battin, Margaret P. | On the relationship between suicide-prevention and suicide-advocacy groups | Largely in response to contemporary medicine's advancing technological capacities to extend the process of dying to extraordinary lengths, recent years have seen the emergence of numerous advocacy groups concerned with what is often called "death with dignity." For instance, the New York-based group... | Suicide prevention; Suicide advocacy; Death with dignity; Suicidology | 1982 |