Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ504650
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Suicide Prevention: The Implications of the Dutch Experience.
Hendin, Herbert
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v25 n1 p193-204 Spr 1995
A study illustrates how legal sanction promotes a culture that transforms suicide into assisted suicide and encourages choosing death when faced with serious illness. The question of extending legal euthanasia to those not physically ill complicates the issue. Also, doctors may feel they can end a terminally-ill patient's life without consent. (JPS)
Descriptors: Civil Law, Euthanasia, Grief, Higher Education, Prevention, Psychiatry, Public Policy, Suicide, Terminal Illness
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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