Euthanasia and assisted suicide in the context of psychiatric disorders : sharing experiences from the Low Countries
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- Geert Dom, Heidi Stoop, An Haekens (UGent) and Sigrid Sterckx (UGent)
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- Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (E/PAS) in the context of unbearable psychological or emotional suffering related to psychiatric disorders (psychiatric E/PAS) is a highly debated topic. In Belgium and The Netherlands, the law allows for psychiatric E/PAS since 2002. The aim of this article is to give an overview of the Belgian and Dutch experiences and the questions raised during the last decade of real-life experiences with psychiatric E/PAS. We use the available national data on psychiatric E/PAS to present a quantitative overview of the current situation. In addition. we identified different challenges; i.e. ethical, medical-psychiatric and legal, that increasingly impact and change the attitudes within the medical and psychiatric professional community towards psychiatric E/PAS.
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- Psychiatry and Mental health, General Medicine, euthanasia, physician assisted suicide, psychiatric disorder, mood disorder, ethics, NETHERLANDS, EoLC
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8685711
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- Dom, Geert, et al. “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Context of Psychiatric Disorders : Sharing Experiences from the Low Countries.” PSYCHIATRIA POLSKA, vol. 54, no. 4, 2020, pp. 661–72, doi:10.12740/pp/124078.
- APA
- Dom, G., Stoop, H., Haekens, A., & Sterckx, S. (2020). Euthanasia and assisted suicide in the context of psychiatric disorders : sharing experiences from the Low Countries. PSYCHIATRIA POLSKA, 54(4), 661–672. https://doi.org/10.12740/pp/124078
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- Dom, Geert, Heidi Stoop, An Haekens, and Sigrid Sterckx. 2020. “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Context of Psychiatric Disorders : Sharing Experiences from the Low Countries.” PSYCHIATRIA POLSKA 54 (4): 661–72. https://doi.org/10.12740/pp/124078.
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- Dom, Geert, Heidi Stoop, An Haekens, and Sigrid Sterckx. 2020. “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Context of Psychiatric Disorders : Sharing Experiences from the Low Countries.” PSYCHIATRIA POLSKA 54 (4): 661–672. doi:10.12740/pp/124078.
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- 1.Dom G, Stoop H, Haekens A, Sterckx S. Euthanasia and assisted suicide in the context of psychiatric disorders : sharing experiences from the Low Countries. PSYCHIATRIA POLSKA. 2020;54(4):661–72.
- IEEE
- [1]G. Dom, H. Stoop, A. Haekens, and S. Sterckx, “Euthanasia and assisted suicide in the context of psychiatric disorders : sharing experiences from the Low Countries,” PSYCHIATRIA POLSKA, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 661–672, 2020.
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number = {{4}},
pages = {{661--672}},
title = {{Euthanasia and assisted suicide in the context of psychiatric disorders : sharing experiences from the Low Countries}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.12740/pp/124078}},
volume = {{54}},
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