End of life decisions in mentally disabled people

Quality of Life in Mentally Ill People

It is much easier to measure any of biological parameters than to describe any of them. Medical science is more „evidence based“ when can be expressed by parameters represented by amount of numbers describing functions in a body. Unfortunately, thanks to statistical approach to the medical science, philosophical or psychological dimensions disappear when considering the human life and its patho...

End-of-life decisions.

Medical end-of-life decisions in Norway.

AIM Previous studies indicate that Norwegian physicians hold conservative attitudes towards ethically controversial end-of-life decisions. The present study was undertaken to explore whether in Norway euthanasia may be hidden under labels such as death after analgesic injections and withholding or withdrawing treatment. METHODS A postal questionnaire containing 76 questions on ethical, colleg...

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

Muslim Attitudes towards End-of-Life Decisions

In this presentation, I will discuss the principles of biomedical and Islamic medical ethics and an interfaith perspective on end-of-life issues. I will also discuss three cases to exemplify some of the conflicts in ethical decision-making.