A qualitative study on existential suffering and assisted suicide in Switzerland

Abstract Background In Switzerland, people can be granted access to assisted suicide (AS) on condition that the person whose wish is to die performs the fatal act, that he has his decisional capacity and that the assisting person’s conduct is not selfishly motivated. No restrictions relating to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marie-Estelle Gaignard, Samia Hurst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12910-019-0367-9