It is well known that there are disagreements between the proponents of palliative care and
of euthanasia or assisted dying, often with little common ground, shaping the end of life …

Declarations on end-of-life issues are advocacy interventions that seek to influence policy,
raise awareness and call others to action. Despite increasing prominence, they have …

Many attempts to define a good death have been recorded in the academic literature. In
most of these attempts, the methods used have been surveys, interviews, and focus groups …

Euthanasia, assisted suicide, medical assistance in dying, death with dignity: these and
many other different terms are used around the world to capture various types of assistance …

Many submissions made by individuals to an Australian Parliamentary inquiry into end-of-
life care which supported assisted dying used narratives of bad deaths of family or friends, or …

Background Based on the case of palliative care and euthanasia in the Netherlands, this
paper presents an analysis of frames and counter-frames used in the ongoing public debate …

'I don't mind dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens.'This quote from Woody
Allen is emblematic of our society's ambivalence toward the notion ofa 'good death'(1, 2). Its …

The demands and costs of health care resulting from increasingly ageing populations have
become a major public health issue in the United Kingdom and other industrially developed …

The subject of death denial in the West has been examined extensively in the sociological
literature. However, there has not been a similar examination of its “opposite”, the …

Background: Debate about appropriate and ethically acceptable end-of-life choices is
ongoing, which includes discussion about the legalization of voluntary assisted dying. Given …