BACKGROUND In recognition of the ongoing discussion on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, the Board of Directors of the European Association for Palliative Care commissioned this white paper from the palliative care perspective. AIM This white paper aims to provide an ethical framework for palliative care professionals on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. It also aims to prov...

This history of the modern introduction assisted suicide in North America follow a tortuous course, with complete rejection idea, to implementation many its jurisdictions. was not leader this approach end-of-life care, Netherlands and Belgium playing that role. Tracing path from felonious ethically anathematic place American society it resurrected into legally acceptable practice over period tw...

Calls to legalize physician-assisted suicide have increased and public interest in the subject has grown in recent years despite ethical prohibitions. Many people have concerns about how they will die and the emphasis by medicine and society on intervention and cure has sometimes come at the expense of good end-of-life care. Some have advocated strongly, on the basis of autonomy, that physician...