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| Active voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide? | | Author(s) | Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Martien T Muller, Gerrit van der Wal |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 10, October 1997 |
| Pages | pp 1208-1213 |
| Keywords | Euthanasia ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Medical care ; Medical workers ; General practitioners ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | In this study, general practitioners (GPs) and nursing home physicians in the Netherlands were asked (by means of anonymous questionnaires) about their and their patients reasons for opting for active voluntary euthanasia rather than for physician-assisted suicide, or vice versa. Findings revealed that in about 75% of all cases, euthanasia was preferred to physician- assisted suicide, however, in 38% of all cases for GPs and 57% of the nursing home physicians' there was no actual choice - physician-assisted suicide could not be performed due to the patient's condition. In cases where there was a choice, most GPs performed euthanasia while most nursing home physicians assisted in suicide. Overall, active voluntary euthanasia was chosen mainly for medico-technical reasons, whereas physician-assisted suicide was selected mainly for moral reasons. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971127410 A |
| Classmark | CY: CX: LV: LK: QT: QT6: 76H |
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