Oregon’s assisted suicide law: A different perspective

Euthanasia in Palliative Care Journals

“…Finally, the active debate about legalizing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States, Canada, Australia, and The Netherlands contribute to the growth in publications on euthanasia as well. [4][5][6][7][8][9] Table 1 also shows that 2 of 12 palliative care journals have not (yet) published about euthanasia (and have seldom or never published about ethics in general). Second, a shift in journals publishing about euthanasia can be observed: those having published most on euthanasia in the period 1994-1997 (AJHPC, JPC, HJ, and EJPC) have hardly any publications about euthanasia in 1998 and 1999, while this type of publications are taken over by new journals.…”

“…However, it would be going too far to pay explicit attention to the different social contexts in the scope of this article. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10] In the years 1998 and 1999, not one article in the journals of palliative care expressed a positive or negative attitude regarding euthanasia. In other words, no attention was paid during this period to the question of whether euthanasia should or should not be legalized.…”