ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in Mental Disorders: Ethical Positions in the Debate between Proportionality, Dignity, and the Right to Die.
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- Assisted suicide in Germany: a survey on requests for and current practices of assisted suicide.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Forensic-psychiatric and medico-legal challenges in euthanasia and assisted suicide for patients with mental disorders: balancing autonomy, vulnerability, and professional responsibility.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Living kidney donation prior to euthanasia: medical, psychological and ethical considerations.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026Article
- Choices and challenges in end-of-life care and decision-making: a nationwide cross-sectional study in Bangladesh.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Attitudes, Roles, and Competencies of Clinical Psychologists Regarding Euthanasia Due to Unbearable Mental Suffering.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Euthanasia in Mental Disorders: Clinical and Ethical Issues in the Cases of Two Women Suffering from Depression.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Neurology and physician-assisted suicide: glossary of definitions and terminology.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Assisted Suicide for Irreversible Patients on Life Support? The Intricate Italian Journey Towards Conforming with the Legislation of Spain, Austria, and Portugal.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Towards a European End-of-Life Regulation: A Necessary Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Physician-assisted suicide in Italy: where do we stand and where do we want to go?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Analyzing ethical dimensions of mental disorders: trends and key research areas through bibliometric methods.Journal of Yeungnam medical science · 2025Article
- Content validity of the questionnaire considering opinions of the Finnish physicians on euthanasia and assisted suicide.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Suicide Attempt without a Mental Health Diagnosis.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2024Article
- Mental health law: a comparison of compulsory hospital admission in Italy and the UK.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
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Abstract
The admission of people suffering from psychiatric and neurocognitive disorders to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (E/PAS) in some European and non-European countries represents a controversial issue. In some countries, the initial limitation of E/PAS to cases of severe physical illness with poor prognosis in the short term has been overcome, as it was considered discriminatory; thus, E/PAS has also been made available to subjects suffering from mental disorders. This decision has raised significant ethical questions regarding the capacity and freedom of self-determination; the family, social, and economic contexts; the social consideration of the sense of dignity and the pressure on the judgment of one's personal value; the contextual therapeutic possibilities; the identification of figures involved in the validation and application; as well as the epistemological definitions of the clinical conditions in question. To these issues must be added the situation of legislative vacuum peculiar to different countries and the widespread lack of effective evaluation and control systems. Nonetheless, pessimistic indicators on global health status, availability of care and assistance, aging demographics, and socioeconomic levels suggest that there may be further pressure toward the expansion of such requests. The present paper aims to trace an international overview with the aim of providing ethical support to the debate on the matter. Precisely, the goal is the delimitation of foundations for clinical practice in the complex field of psychiatry between the recognition of the irreversibility of the disease, assessment of the state of physical and mental suffering, as well as the possibility of adopting free and informed choices.
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