Hastening the death of another whether through assisted suicide or euthanasia is the subject of intense debate in the … Attitudes survey – to examine changes in attitudes to the legalisation of physician provided euthanasia (PPE) over almost 30 … attitudes to euthanasia were available in the six years of 1983, 1984, 1989, 1994, 2005, and 2012. We study the trends in the …

In the Netherlands, euthanasia is allowed if physicians adhere to legal requirements. Consultation of an independent … physician is one of the requirements. SCEN (Support and Consultation on Euthanasia in the Netherlands) physicians have been …

A pivotal due care criterion for lawful euthanasia in the Netherlands is that doctors must be convinced that a patient … requesting for euthanasia, suffers unbearably. Our study aims to find out how doctors judge if a patient suffers unbearably. How … suffering in the context of a euthanasia request. Sometimes doctors do this imagining how she herself would experience the …

act as the legally required second physician in requests for euthanasia in Flanders and Brussels, Belgium, the use of … which has been to shown to be beneficial to the careful practice of euthanasia. …

Since 2002, Belgium has had a national law legalising euthanasia. The law prescribes several substantive due care … requirements and two procedural due care requirements, i.e. consultation with an independent physician and reporting of euthanasia … euthanasia in both regions. Using Belgian data from the European Values Study conducted in 2008 among a representative sample of …