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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Background Public opinion polls indicate that a majority of Canadians are in favour of
euthanasia. However, there have been many criticisms of the validity of these findings. The …

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

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 …

Two decades of research on euthanasia in the Netherlands have resulted into clear insights
in the frequency and characteristics of euthanasia and other medical end-of-life decisions in …

Changes in medical practices during transitions in regulating healthcare are rarely
investigated. In this study, we investigated changes in medical end-of-life decisions with a …