Legalisation of assisted suicide: a safeguard to euthanasia?

Lancet. 2014 Jul 12;384(9938):127. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61154-5.

Authors

Claudia Gamondi¹, Gian Domenico Borasio¹, Costanzo Limoni², Nancy Preston³, Sheila Payne³

Affiliations

¹ Palliative Care Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
² University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland.
³ International Observatory on End of Life Care, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

PMID: 25016988
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61154-5

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Euthanasia / legislation & jurisprudence*
Euthanasia / trends
Humans
Suicide, Assisted / legislation & jurisprudence*
Suicide, Assisted / trends