Dutch higher court places further limitations on physician-assisted death
Year: 2002
Type: editorial
Abstract: Dutch higher court places further limitations on physicianassisted death Recently a Dutch higher court judged that physicians should not be allowed to end the lives of patients for non-medical reasons. In the case before the court a general practitioner had ended the life of an elderly patient—a former member of the Dutch Senate—at the latter’s urgent and repeated requests. Although he had not been seriously ill and a consultant psychiatrist had not found any indications of psychiatric illness, the patient did not wish to go on living any longer. At the heart of the general practitioner’s main argument in defence of the way he had dealt with his patient’s request was his conviction that his patient had suffered unbearably under the need to continue
DOI: 10.5334/ijic.47
Author: Cor Spreeuwenberg
Institution: Maastricht University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,839
OpenAlex ID: W2121734531