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ArticleSSM - population health2025

Policies on dying: Assisted suicide in Germany.

Carmen Sainz Villalba

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Article in SSM - population health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Carmen Sainz VillalbaMax Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Marstallplatz 1, Munich 80539, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper studies the effect of exposing German individuals to real-life cases on attitudes toward the legalization of assisted suicide. We find that support for legalizing assisted suicide changes in 21 % of our sample. Among those who strongly favor the policy, support weakens when they encounter real-life cases, as their confidence in their opinions diminishes. Respondents who oppose are less likely to shift to strongly oppose. We also find that the change in opinion due to exposure to cases is mediated by respondents' prior beliefs on the cases' outcome. We also explore the reasons why some respondents do not change their opinions. We find that respondents more likely to change their support are those who attribute lower credibility to the information provided.

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Assisted suicideBeliefsBiasInformation treatmentKnowledgeSterbehilfe

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PMID40469923
PMCPMC12136815

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