Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: The 10-Year Experience of a Palliative Care Unit Medical Director and Ethic Committee Member (FR412)

Palliative care or assisted suicide?

Thwarting assisted suicide threatens palliative care.

Self-care Education Management from Structuring to Monitoring : The Experience of Self-Care Education Committee in Medical Faculty of Mashhad

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Nonphysician-assisted suicide in Switzerland.

In general, legal responses to end-of-life issues are not very different in Switzerland than in most European countries. For instance, active euthanasia (i.e. killing on request) is illegal, although it is treated as a lesser offense than murder or manslaughter. Article 114 of the Swiss Penal Code reads, “Every person who, for honorable reasons, especially mercy, kills another person on his or ...

[Physician-assisted suicide is not a failure of palliative care].

I want to die.” That was how I received my first request for assisted suicide. Jean was a single, 50-year-old woman with advanced cancer. She had just been told that she could not receive any more chemotherapy, and a palliative treatment plan was recommended. “I watched my mother dying and I don’t want to go through that. Sitting in a wheelchair is death to me,” she asserted. I was in the sixth...