Euthanasia consultation services: Belgium and the Netherlands

Description:

This is an academic, document-oriented study describing and comparing services in the Netherlands and Belgium that provide euthanasia consultants to doctors: Support and Consultation for Euthanasia in the Netherlands (SCEN) and Life End Information Forum (LEIF) in Belgium. The full article is available as a 26 page PDF file at http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6963-9-220.pdf.

Conclusion: In countries where legalising physician-assisted death is being contemplated, the development of such a consultation provision could also be considered in order to safeguard the practice of euthanasia (as it can provide safeguards to adequate performance of euthanasia and assisted suicide).

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Source:

Van Wesemael, Yanna, Joachim Cohen, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Johan Bilsen and Luc Deliens. "Establishing specialized health services for professional consultation in euthanasia: experiences in the Netherlands and Belgium". BMC Health Services Research. Published: 4 December 2009. <www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/9/220/abstract>. BioMed Central Ltd, Floor 6, 236 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8HL, United Kingdom.

Tags:

Tags (or keywords) briefly indicate some major topics of the report.

  • euthanasia

  • Support and Consultation for Euthanasia in the Netherlands (SCEN)

  • Life End Information Forum (LEIF)

  • Belgium

  • Netherlands

ID:

The EuthaNEWSia ID for this advisory is: enid200912073466.
Mailed: Monday, December 7, 2009 14:11:26 -0600
at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Etcetera:

EuthaNEWSia is a free Canadian news advisory service covering end-of-life issues such as right to die, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. EuthaNEWSia is produced by the Right to Die Society of Canada which works toward a good death for all, including open, regulated and equitable access to euthanasia and assisted suicide. The editor is Michael Dawson <editor@euthanewsia.ca>. 

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