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Review
. 2003 Jul 26;327(7408):213-5.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7408.213.

Patients' voices are needed in debates on euthanasia

Yvonne Y W Mak  1 , Glyn Elwyn, Ilora G Finlay
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Review

Patients' voices are needed in debates on euthanasia

Yvonne Y W Mak et al. BMJ. .

Erratum in

  • BMJ. 2003 Sep 6;327(7414):556

Abstract

Medically assisted death is legal in a few countries, and discussion about legalisation is ongoing in many others. But legalisation may be premature when we still do not know why patients want euthanasia and whether better end of life care would change their views

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Figure 1
Euthanasia with Death by John Spooner, 1997 Credit: JOHN SPOONER/THE AGE/CHRYSALIS/NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
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Figure 2
Patients' perceived reality of their past, present, and future for those who felt whole before diagnosis and those with reduced sense of wholeness because of unresolved life events, personality problems, or poor social support
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