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There still is controversy about the role of euthanasia in psychiatry and its practical implementations. The debate exceeds medical decision making and is primarily based on ethical and philosophical grounds. Eventually, the position of an individual psychiatrist toward euthanasia and caring for life depends on his or her metaphysical perspective on death. Is death solely the end of life, or is death the start of a meaningful life? Whatever stance one takes in the euthanasia debate, albeit good or bad, right or wrong, in the end, there is a terminal effect.Euthanasia for psychiatric disorders is an infinite debate with finite consequences.
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Why is it important?
The use of euthanasia in psychiatry has ignited fierce debates among psychiatrists.
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Euthanasia is a pressing public issue. There is widespread public support for the current regulation of ending life on request, and it is expected that requests by psychiatric patients in the Netherlands will increase. Three developments encourage this growing demand: societal developments, the role of psychiatry, and the euthanasia act.
damiaan denys
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This page is a summary of: Is Euthanasia Psychiatric Treatment? The Struggle With Death on Request in the Netherlands, American Journal of Psychiatry, September 2018, American Psychiatric Association,
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18060725.
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