How is Death Hastening Done? A Review of Existing Sanctioned Death Hastening Decision-Making Processes and Practices

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  • Sahana S. Nayak
  • Donna M. Wilson
  • Junichi Yoshino

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Death hastening is a controversial terminal care option that is currently carried out in only four countries and some US states, with Canada posed to allow it on June 6, 2016. This article focuses on how assisted suicide and euthanasia have been managed in the four countries and US states where it has been sanctioned and practiced. A systematic literature review and additional searches were employed to gain information on the methods, recipients, procedures, regulations, outcomes, and other information available on state-sanctioned death hastening. The findings reveal many different possible models and thus considerations required for planning in advance of death hastening actually occurring.   

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