Importance The increasing legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
worldwide makes it important to understand related attitudes and practices. Objective To …

Background: Legislative changes are resulting in assisted death as an option for people at
the end of life. Although nurses' experiences and perspectives are underrepresented within …

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 …

Abstract Background Although the Belgian assessment pathway for legal euthanasia
requires the engagement of at least one psychiatrist, little is known about psychiatrists' …

This article analyses domestic and foreign reactions to a 2008 report in the British Medical
Journal on the complementary and, as argued, synergistic relationship between palliative …

Objectives Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) was legalized in Victoria, Australia, in June 2019.
Victoria was the first jurisdiction in the world to require doctors to undertake training before …

When the Act Respecting End-of-Life Care came into effect in Quebec in 2015, nearly 30
Interdisciplinary Support Groups (ISGs) were formed to accompany practitioners and …

Background: Voluntary assisted dying was legalized in Victoria, Australia in June 2019, and
was the first jurisdiction internationally to legislatively mandate training for doctors …

Background Since its legalisation in 2002, the number of times euthanasia has been carried
out in response to requests from adults with psychiatric conditions (APC) has continued to …

Objectives To study changes in the peer consultation practice of assessing assisted dying
requests and its quality among trained 'Life End Information Forum'(LEIF) consultants in …