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- Title
Legal issues relating to the limitation of life support - a review of the international legal position.
- Authors
Rao, Justice M. Jagannadha
- Abstract
This article focuses on international legal position related to terminal care. France recently adopted a law granting terminally ill patients the right to end their life. The Act allows doctors to stop giving medical assistance when it has no effect other than maintaining life artificially. It stops short of permitting euthanasia, because the Act does not allow the doctor actively to end a patient's life. In New South Wales (Australia), both euthanasia and assisted suicide are offences under Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) as they involve deliberate acts or omissions that are undertaken with the intention of ending a person's life and are inconsistent with the duties of a medical practitioner.
- Subjects
FRANCE; NEW South Wales; TERMINAL care laws; TERMINALLY ill; PHYSICIANS; EUTHANASIA; PATIENTS; SUICIDE
- Publication
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2005, Vol 9, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
0972-5229
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/0972-5229.17099