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 …

METHOD We searched the PubMed database using com-. f th t" tl*"" ttit d*" binatlOnS 0 e
erms eu tanas, a 1 ue," questionnaire"," palliati*"," hospice", and" survey". Of the obtained …

Background Competence and attitudes to suicidal behaviour among physicians are
important to provide high-quality care for a large patient group. The aim was to study …

Background End-of-life decisions remain controversial. Switzerland, with three main
languages shared with surrounding countries and legal suicide assistance, allows …

Hintergrund: Ethische Fragen am Lebensende stehen im Mittelpunkt wissenschaftlicher und
gesellschaftlicher Diskussionen. Bislang liegen wenige empirische Daten zur ärztlichen …

Background: Legalizing euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is a current topic of
debate in many countries. The Netherlands is the only country where legislation covers both …

Objectives: To elicit types and frequencies of end-of-life practices by physician members of
the German Society for Palliative Medicine. To analyse associations between characteristics …

The growing support for voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) is evident in the recently
approved Dutch Law on Termination of Life on Request. Indeed, the debate over legalized …

In some countries, particularly Spain, one of the arguments used to justify the legalization of
euthanasia is that there is a strong social demand for it. To try to ascertain the truth of this …

Background In 2002, Belgium set a legal framework for euthanasia, whereby granting and
performing euthanasia is entrusted entirely to physicians, and—as advised by Belgian …