INTRODUCTION The topic of euthanasia has induced differences not only among professionals in the medical fraternity but also in other fields as well. The dying process is being lengthened by the new state of art technologies erupting as such higher pace, and it is at the expense of standard quality of life and of a gracious death. AIM To study the awareness and attitude toward euthanasia amon...

BACKGROUND In the international debate about assisted dying, it is commonly stated that euthanasia is incompatible with palliative care. In Belgium, where euthanasia was legalized in 2002, the Federation for Palliative Care Flanders has endorsed the viewpoint that euthanasia can be embedded in palliative care. AIM To examine the involvement of palliative care services in euthanasia practice i...

On 23 September 2002, the Belgian law on euthanasia came into force. This makes Belgium the second country in the world (after the Netherlands) to have an Act on euthanasia. Even though there is currently legal regulation of euthanasia in Belgium, very little is known about how this legal regulation could be translated into care for patients who request euthanasia.

In this literature review, a picture is given of the complexity of nursing attitudes toward euthanasia. The myriad of data found in empirical literature is mostly framed within a polarised debate and inconclusive about the complex reality behind attitudes toward euthanasia. Yet, a further examination of the content as well as the context of attitudes is more revealing. The arguments for euthana...

OBJECTIVES To assess the opinion of intensive care unit (ICU) personnel and the impact of their personality and religious beliefs on decisions to forego life-sustaining treatments (DFLSTs). SETTING Cross-sectional, observational, national study in 18 multidisciplinary Greek ICUs, with >6 beds, between June and December 2015. PARTICIPANTS 149 doctors and 320 nurses who voluntarily and anonym...

The "standard position" on organ donation is that the donor must be dead in order for vital organs to be removed, a position with which we agree. Recently, Robert Truog and Walter Robinson have argued that (1) brain death is not death, and (2) even though "brain dead" patients are not dead, it is morally acceptable to remove vital organs from those patients. We accept and defend their claim tha...

The word euthanasia evokes emotions, regardless of the way it is used. When pronounced, instead of a rational discourse, separate camps of irreconcilable proponents and opponents are drawn up. Both fight for dignity, liberty, autonomy, rights and humaneness. Few debates in the area of health care result in such polarization of opinions as euthanasia. While for some people euthanasia is a manife...

Myocardial infarction (MI) in rats is accompanied by apoptosis in the limbic system and a behavioural syndrome similar to models of depression. We have already shown that probiotics can reduce post-MI apoptosis and designed the present study to determine if probiotics can also prevent post-MI depressive behaviour. We also tested the hypothesis that probiotics achieve their central effects throu...

Euthanasia (permintaan untuk mati) merupakan fenomena baru di dunia Hukum Pidana. Dikatakan demikian karena dalam jaman dahulu (kuno) belum ada semacam ini. Ini muncul berkembangnya faham individualism atau liberalisme yang melanda barat. Akibat dari perkembangan itu hak-hak seseorang harus dilindungi, termasuk hak mati (euthanasia). Jenis penelitian ini adalah Yuridis normatif, sifat diskripti...

suicide has been regarded as a great sin in different religions. since 1791, two years after the french revolution, the criminality of suicide was removed in france as people are regarded free which could decide about themselves. euthanasia or mercy killing is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. if death is not intended, it is no...