BACKGROUND: When suffering becomes unbearable for patients they might request for euthanasia. OBJECTIVE: To study which patients request for euthanasia and which requests actually resulted in euthanasia in relation with ...

ADs are documents in which one can state one's preferences concerning end-of-life care, aimed at making someone's wishes known in situations where he/she is not able to do so in another manner. There is still a lot unclear ...

OBJECTIVE: To study how advance euthanasia directives (AEDs) in dementia are viewed in practice in the Netherlands. DESIGN: Qualitative study. METHOD: In-depth interviews on nine patients with the patients themselves and/or ...