would have been better is reported, in the context of debate about euthanasia. Spouses were less likely than others to feel …

care is effective in reducing the desire for euthanasia has been proposed as an argument against the legalization of … voluntary euthanasia. The findings suggest that the picture is in fact more complex. People who received hospice care were, if … geared to helping patients express their fears and exercise choice. The wish for euthanasia may then be an assertion of …

, and of requests for euthanasia are reported. Excluding a proportion who did not wish to express a view, or did not know …, or would have been, preferable. 3.6% of people in the 1990 study were said to have asked for euthanasia at some point in … dependency was important in causing the feeling that an earlier death would have been better, as well as requests for euthanasia …