As recently pointed out by the American Academy of Neurology, providing adequate
palliative care to dying patients is the duty of every neurologist. Because of a lack of relevant …

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Background Although there have been many studies of physician-assisted suicide and
euthanasia in the United States, national data are lacking. Methods In 1996, we mailed …

Palliative care is generally agreed to be the standard of care for the dying, but there remain
some patients for whom intolerable suffering persists. In the face of ethical and legal …

Objective: After passage, in November 1 994, of Oregon's ballot measure legalizing
physiciami-assisted suicide for termimially ill persons, the authors surveyed psychiatrists in …

Review of empirical studies indicates that suicide is more common in persons suffering from
some physical illnesses (eg, epilepsy, head injuries, Huntington's Chorea, gastrointestinal …

Context.—Despite intense debates about legalization, there are few data examining the
details of actual euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) cases in the United …

Objective Recommendations for making and implementing decisions to forgo life-sustaining
therapy in intensive care units have been developed in the United States, but the extent that …

The public debate about euthanasia and assisted suicide is less pronounced in Italy than in
other countries, and data about this topic are lacking. The aim of this study was to investigate …

Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde am 2. Dezember 2011 von der Juristischen Fakultät der
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg als Dissertation angenommen. Das Manuskript …