Influences on the desire to die by the seriously ill
Article Abstract:
Pain, depression and the level of family support are very influential factors in whether patients with terminal illness express a wish to die, according to a study of 200 terminally ill patients in Winnipeg, Canada. Of the patients, 89 patients voiced occasional wishes to die, with two having a strong wish for death, scoring five or six on a six-point scale, and 15 scoring four. Of those 17 patients voicing a serious wish to die, 10 had been diagnosed as having depression and 13 had moderate or greater pain.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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Euthanasia and the legal situation in the Netherlands
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Euthanasia has not been legalised in the Netherlands and cannot be actively procured. However, a case against a physician can be dismissed by the public prosecutor if he believes the patient's situation was intolerable, the patient had continuously sought euthanasia, the patient's disease and death is reported in writing and another physician's views had been sought. Health-care professionals in the Netherlands believe euthanasia is legally permissable if the patient clearly wants to die.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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The euthanasia debate: how NT readers view the issues
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Some 69% of Nursing Times readers who responded to a recent questionnaire on euthanasia reported that they had had patients who requested euthanasia, and 58% reported that a request for euthanasia had come from a relative or other close contact. There was a strong sense among the responses to the questionnaire that this is still a very difficult issue, with many health professionals finding it hard to differentiate between active and passive euthanasia, for example.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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