Background: Concerns about suicide risk in people with dementia have been increasing in
recent years along with a discourse about rational suicide and assisted suicide. Methods: A …

In an ageing world with a growing prevalence of neurodegenerative disease and recent
voluntary assisted dying laws in New Zealand and several Australian states, healthcare …

Background Euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) have been legally possible in the
Netherlands since 2001, provided that statutory due care criteria are met, including:(a) …

In the societal debate surrounding voluntary euthanasia or physician‐assisted suicide, there
is a concern that older people will be left exposed to any legislation, subject to either faint …

When should we try to prevent suicide? Should it be facilitated for some people, in some
circumstances? For the last forty years, law and policy on suicide have followed two …

In many Western jurisdictions the law presumes that adult persons, and sometimes children
that meet certain criteria, are capable of making their own medical decisions; for example …

Physician-assisted death (PAD) has been enacted in a number of international jurisdictions,
with several extending access to PAD for persons whose condition is not terminal, including …

The article presents empirical data concerning the meaning of freedom and autonomy in the
emotional-cognitive processes that govern pre-suicidal decision-making. The data is derived …

As the body of research on suicide in later life has developed, so has its vocabulary. This
has generated a high level of overlap in concepts and terminology used to articulate suicide …

For many years there has been a controversial international debate on physician-assisted
suicide (PAS). While proponents of PAS regularly refer to the unbearable suffering and the …