Competent patients suffering from treatment-resistant depressive disorder should be treated
no different in the context of assisted dying to other patients suffering from chronic conditions …

Information on motivations for research participation, may enable professionals to better
tailor the process of recruitment and informed consent to the perspective of parents and …

Artificial nutrition is a medical treatment that first of all needs a sound scientific base before
prescribing it. This base is absent for dying patients and patients in the end stage of …

Background: The practice of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in the
Netherlands has been regulated since 2002 by the Euthanasia Act. In the ongoing debate …

Purpose There is debate to what extent employers are entitled to interfere with the lifestyle
and health of their workers. In this context, little information is available on the opinion of …

Abstract Background The Dutch law states that a physician may perform euthanasia
according to a written advance euthanasia directive (AED) when a patient is incompetent as …

The number of dementia patients requesting euthanasia in the Netherlands has increased
over the past five years. The issue is highly controversial. In this contribution we discuss …

Background Physicians who receive a request for euthanasia or assisted suicide may
experience a conflict of duties: the duty to preserve life on the one hand and the duty to …

At the height of the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands a shortness of intensive care beds
was looming. Dutch professional medical organizations asked a group of ethicists for …

Some jurisdictions that have decriminalized assisted dying (like Canada) exclude
psychiatric patients on the grounds that their condition cannot be determined to be …