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PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS
Author(s) -
GEVERS SJEF
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8519.1995.tb00366.x
Subject(s) - assisted suicide , supreme court , right to die , point (geometry) , supreme court decisions , suicide prevention , psychology , psychiatry , law , medicine , poison control , political science , medical emergency , geometry , mathematics
Until recently, physician assisted suicide was dealt with on the same basis as active voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands. Over the last years, several cases relating to assistance in suicide of mental patients did raise specific issues, not addressed so far in the debate on euthanasia. One of these cases resulted in a Supreme Court decision. The paper summarizes this decision and comments on it from a legal point of view.