Attitudes towards assisted suicide and life-prolonging measures in Swiss ALS patients and their caregivers

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...

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Main Authors: Ralf eStutzki, Ursula eSchneider, Stella eReiter-Theil, Markus eWeber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
ALS
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00443/full