The AMA on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

The right to assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: focus on the data.

1 MBritain and the United States began in the late 19th century. Legislation was periodically proposed only to be defeated until, in 1942, Switzerland decriminalised assistance in suicide for cases when there were no “selfish motives”. In 2002, euthanasia was legalised in the Netherlands and Belgium, then in Luxembourg in 2009, and most recently, in 2015 in Colombia and in 2016 in Canada. PAS, ...

Euthanasia and assisted suicide: is mercy sufficient?

Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: ongoing controversies.

When, back in 2002, Chao et al1 reviewed the topic of euthanasia, there was a trend toward legalising it in a few countries. The Netherlands had just passed a bill in April 2001 to legalise the practice of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and Belgium was in the process of doing so. Before the bill, Dutch physicians had practised euthanasia and PAS under a set of guidelines agreed...

Trends in euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Two new studies have investigated trends in euthanasia and assisted suicide in Belgium and the Netherlands. Marianne Snijdewind and colleagues’ study focused on practices at a Dutch clinic for people whose previous requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide have satisfi ed the legal requirements but have nonetheless been rejected. During the first year, the clinic answered 645 requests for eut...