In many European countries, the last decade has been marked by an increasing debate
about the acceptability and regulation of euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions in …

Background: We wanted to examine how the acceptance of euthanasia among the general
public in Western Europe has changed in the last decades, and we wanted to look for …

Objectives In recent years, the European euthanasia debate has become more intense, and
the practice was legalized in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. We aimed to …

This study explores explanations for the approval of euthanasia by assessing differences
among individuals and countries, using four main arguments used by opponents and …

We examined how acceptance of euthanasia among the general public has changed
between 1981 and 2008 in western and central and eastern European (CEE) countries …

Since 2002, Belgium has had a national law legalising euthanasia. The law prescribes
several substantive due care requirements and two procedural due care requirements, ie …

The object of this study was to investigate the attitudes of physicians, nurses and the general
public to physician-assisted suicide (PAS), active voluntary euthanasia (AVE) and passive …

Euthanasia is legal only in the Netherlands and Belgium, but it is on occasion performed by
physicians elsewhere. We recruited in France two convenience samples of 221 lay people …

Hastening the death of another whether through assisted suicide or euthanasia is the
subject of intense debate in the UK and elsewhere. In this paper we use a nationally …

In surveys of physicians about patients who had died in Belgium, where euthanasia is legal,
the rate of euthanasia increased between 2007 and 2013, from 1.9 to 4.6% of deaths. The …