Legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide: advanced cancer patient opinions – cross-sectional multicentre study
Sebastien Salas,
Guillaume Economos,
Damien Hugues
et al.
Abstract:ObjectivesThe French government voted a new law in February 2016 called the Claeys-Leonetti Law, which established the right to deep and continuous sedation, confirmed the ban on euthanasia and ruled out physician-assisted suicide. The aim of this work was to gather the opinion of patients on continuous sedation and the legalisation of medical assistance in dying and to explore determinants associated with favourable and unfavourable opinions.MethodsThis was a French national prospective multicentre study betw… Show more
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