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The World Health Organization issued a resource guide for responsible reporting to minimize the risks of suicide contagions, which is a great reminder for the media coverage in the assisted suicide debates:

• avoid language which sensationalizes or normalizes suicide, or presents it as a solution to problems
• avoid prominent placement and undue repetition of stories about suicide
• avoid providing detailed information about the site of a completed or attempted suicide
• word headlines carefully
• exercise caution in using photographs or video footage, take particular care in ...

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"Surveys on attitudes towards assisted dying play an important role in informing public debate, policy and legislation. Unfortunately, surveys are often designed with insufficient attention to framing effects; that is, effects on the respondents’ stated attitudes caused by question wording and context." For this reason, researchers should take care in interpreting survey results.

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"Euthanasia, that is the act of deliberately ending the life of a patient, even at the patient's own request or at the request of close relatives, is unethical"...

Adopted by the 53^rd WMA General Assembly, Washington, DC, USA, October 2002
and reaffirmed with minor revision by the 194^th WMA Council Session, Bali, Indonesia, April 2013 

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