Attitudes Toward Assisted Suicide and Life-Prolonging Measures in Swiss ALS Patients and Their Caregivers.

Stutzki, Ralf; Schneider, Ursula; Reiter-Theil, Stella; Weber, Markus

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00443

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Attitudes Toward Assisted Suicide and Life-Prolonging Measures in Swiss ALS Patients and Their Caregivers.

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Authors:

Ralf Stutzki

Ursula Schneider

Stella Reiter-Theil

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: In Switzerland, assisted suicide (AS) is legal, provided that the person seeking assistance has decisional capacity and the person assisting is not motivated by reasons of self-interest. However, in this particular setting nothing is known about patients' and their caregivers' attitudes ...

Subject

ALS

depression

end of life

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