Assisted dying: law and practice around the world
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Several countries in Europe and in North and South America already allow doctors to help patients end their lives. Caroline White, Owen Dyer, and Aser García Rada report
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Physician-assisted suicide on the basis of psychiatric suffering has been legally permitted in Belgium and the Netherlands since 2002.
“Notable exceptions to this are Belgium and the Netherlands, where PAS on the basis of psychiatric suffering has been permitted since 2002 [1].”
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- Authors
- Dyer, O., White, C., & García Rada, A.
- Corresponding author
- Dyer, Owen
- White, Caroline
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2015-08-19
- Volume
- 351
- Pages
- h4481
- ISSN
- 1756-1833 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1960975782
- Cited by
- 68
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 7.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Keywords
- assisted dying, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, end-of-life care, assisted suicide legislation, comparative law, medical ethics
- MeSH terms
- Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Humans, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, United States, Suicide, Assisted, Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary
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