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Dementia and assisted suicide and euthanasia

The number of dementia patients requesting euthanasia in the Netherlands has increased over the past five years. The issue is highly controversial. In this contribution we discuss some of the main arguments: the nature of suffering, the voluntariness of the request and the role of the physician. We...

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Autores principales: de Beaufort, Inez D., van de Vathorst, Suzanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4929163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27017340
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8095-2