"Surveys on attitudes towards assisted dying play an important role in informing public debate, policy and legislation. Unfortunately, surveys are often designed with insufficient attention to framing effects; that is, effects on the respondents’ stated attitudes caused by question wording and context." For this reason, researchers should take care in interpreting survey results.
"Euthanasia, that is the act of deliberately ending the life of a patient, even at the patient's own request or at the request of close relatives, is unethical"...
Adopted by the 53rd WMA General Assembly, Washington, DC, USA, October 2002
and reaffirmed with minor revision by the 194th WMA Council Session, Bali, Indonesia, April 2013
Continue Reading → World Medical Association’s Declaration on Euthanasia
A Belgian activist warns of the slippery slope as euthanasia becomes ‘normal’.
Continue Reading → Suicide with the approval of society
The more a population accepts killing as an acceptable response to human suffering, the broader the categories for which euthanasia becomes acceptable – and the more people are killed.
Continue Reading → 2000 Belgian Euthanasia Killings in 2015
Young woman euthanized because of a broken relationship.
Continue Reading → Controversial case re-opens euthanasia debate in Belgium