Importance The increasing legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
worldwide makes it important to understand related attitudes and practices. Objective To …

ethics, especially medical ethics, has come under serious criticism in the medical literature.
1, 2 Because of its immense practical importance in the care of dying patients, any attack on …

Palliative care is generally agreed to be the standard of care for the dying, but there remain
some patients for whom intolerable suffering persists. In the face of ethical and legal …

BACKGROUND: Patients' religious commitments and religious communities are known to
influence their experiences of illness and their medical decisions. Physicians are also …

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of depressive
disorders and symptoms and their correlates in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

According to the ethical principle known as the “rule of double effect,” effects that would be
morally wrong if caused intentionally are permissible if foreseen but unintended. This …

'Terminal sedation'is a phrase that has appeared in the palliative care literature in the last
few years. There has not been a clear definition proposed for this term, nor has there been …

In many European countries, the last decade has been marked by an increasing debate
about the acceptability and regulation of euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions in …

Objectives In recent years, the European euthanasia debate has become more intense, and
the practice was legalized in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. We aimed to …

Background and Methods On October 27, 1997, Oregon legalized physician-assisted
suicide. We collected data on all terminally ill Oregon residents who received prescriptions …