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Long-term development of assisted suicide in Switzerland: analysis of a 20-year experience (1999–2018)

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023
AIMS OF THE STUDY: The legalisation of assisted suicide is one of the most debated topics in the field of medical ethics worldwide. In countries in which assisted suicide is not legal, public discussions about its approval also encompass considerations ...
Giacomo  Montagna, Christoph Junker, Constanze Elfgen, Andres R. Schneeberger, Uwe Güth   +4 more
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Social, cultural and experiential patterning of attitudes and behaviour towards assisted suicide in Switzerland: evidence from a national population-based study

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
Switzerland has the longest history of the legal practice of non-physician assisted suicide of any country. Assisted suicide is not very tightly regulated in Switzerland, and almost all assisted suicides are supported by a right-to-die organisation ...
Sarah Vilpert, Elio Bolliger, Carmen Borrat-Besson, Gian Domenico Borasio, Jürgen Maurer   +4 more
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A qualitative study on continuous deep sedation until death as an alternative to assisted suicide in Switzerland

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background According to the European Association for Palliative Care, decisions regarding palliative sedation should not be made in response to requests for assisted dying, such as euthanasia or assisted suicide.
Martyna Tomczyk, Nathalie Dieudonné-Rahm, Ralf J. Jox   +2 more
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Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background There has been no in-depth research of public attitudes on withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide and physician assisted suicide in Croatia.
Ana Borovecki, Marko Curkovic, Krunoslav Nikodem, Stjepan Oreskovic, Milivoj Novak, Filip Rubic, Jurica Vukovic, Diana Spoljar, Bert Gordijn, Chris Gastmans   +9 more
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Increase in assisted suicide in Switzerland: did the socioeconomic predictors change? Results from the Swiss National Cohort

BMJ Open, 2018
Objective To determine whether the strong increase in assisted suicides in Switzerland since 2008 is linked to a shift in the socioeconomic factors associated with assisted suicide and its related diagnoses.Methods In a population-based longitudinal ...
Marcel Zwahlen, Nicole Steck, Christoph Junker   +2 more
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Attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in Spanish university students

Revista Bioética, 2019
Attitudes toward physician-assisted death among medical students differ between populations. The aim of this study was to explore attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide among Spanish university students.
María Sol Rodríguez-Calvo, José Luis Soto, Isabel María Martínez-Silva, Fernando Vázquez-Portomeñe, José Ignacio Muñoz-Barús   +4 more
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Investigating the relationship between euthanasia and/or assisted suicide and rates of non-assisted suicide: systematic review. [PDF]

BJPsych Open, 2022
Background Euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) are practices that aim to alleviate the suffering of people with life-limiting illnesses, but are controversial.
Doherty AM, Axe CJ, Jones DA.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Determinants of suicidal history before assisted versus self-initiated suicide late in life: an observational study

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023
BACKGROUND: Older adults are at risk of assisted and self-initiated suicide. The links between prior attempts and assisted suicide in the elderly have not been investigated.
Nathalie Dieudonné Rahm, Sophie Pautex
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Perspectives of Major World Religions regarding Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Comparative Analysis

Journal of religion and health, 2022
Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EPAS) are important contemporary societal issues and religious faiths offer valuable insights into any discussion on this topic.
G. Grove, M. Lovell, M. Best
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Psychoanalytic understanding of the request for assisted suicide

The International journal of psycho-analysis, 2022
The legalisation of assisted dying, including euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, is increasing in countries across the world and constitutes a key contemporary debate, reflecting social changes, in which two views of suicide conflict; that (1 ...
S. Briggs, R. Lindner, M. Goldblatt, N. Kapusta, M. Teising   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source