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 ...

In 2002, Belgium saw the enactment of 3 laws concerning euthanasia, palliative care, and patient rights that are likely to affect end-of-life decision making. This report examines trends in the occurrence and decision-making ...

Legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has been heavily debated in many countries. To help inform this debate, we describe the practices of euthanasia and assisted suicide, and the use of life-ending ...

The aims of this study were to investigate: (1) opinions of medical students regarding quantity and content of education on end-of-life care in the curriculum, (2) medical students' knowledge of different aspects of the ...

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 ...