Objectives To describe and compare euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS)
practice in Flanders, Belgium (BE), the Netherlands (NL) and Switzerland (CH). Methods …

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 …

This article analyses and compares recent research on Scandinavian physicians' attitudes
towards, as well as their practice of, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. The studies …

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 …

Background While a number of reviews have explored the attitude of health professionals
toward euthanasia, none of them documented their motivations to practice euthanasia. The …

Background: When suffering becomes unbearable for patients they might request for
euthanasia. Objective: To study which patients request for euthanasia and which requests …

Background Physicians who receive a request for euthanasia or assisted suicide may
experience a conflict of duties: the duty to preserve life on the one hand and the duty to …

Background: In 2002, the Belgian Act on Euthanasia came into effect, regulating the
intentional ending of life by a physician at the patient's explicit request. We undertook this …

While surveys of Australian nurses' attitudes to active voluntary euthanasia (AVE) have
found that the majority are in favour, there may be important differences between subgroups …

Background: Issues concerning legislation and regulation with respect to the role of nurses
in euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide gave the Minister for Health reason to …