Time for change

Branthwaite, M. A.

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7518.681

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“…In many European countries, an increasing public debate is now going on about the acceptability and regulation of euthanasia and other MELDs [16][17][18][19][20][21]. In Belgium and the Netherlands, this debate resulted in the legalisation of euthanasia [1,22].…”

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Ethics policies on euthanasia in hospitals—A survey in Flanders (Belgium)

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Ethics policies on euthanasia in hospitals—A survey in Flanders (Belgium)

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“…Public opinion polls suggest over 80% support euthanasia legalisation in the UK (Branthwaite, 2005). In most developed countries a majority of the general population appear supportive.…”

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Assisted dying in liberalised jurisdictions and the role of psychiatry: A clinician’s view

Macleod

2012

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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There remain significant concerns about the accuracy of psychiatric assessment in the terminally ill. Mental processes are more relevant influences on a hastened wish to die than are the physical symptoms of terminal malignant disease. Psychiatric review of persons requesting euthanasia is relevant. It is not obligatory or emphasised in those legislations allowing assisted dying. Psychiatry needs to play a greater role in the assessment processes of euthanasia and PAS.

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“…EDITOR—Branthwaite makes it all sound simple 1. For the assisted dying lobby, autonomy is the ruling principle in medical ethics.…”

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