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Introduction | |
Background and History | |
The lateness of the Dutch euthanasia debate and its consequences | |
Classifications and definitions: Dutch developments | |
The legalization of euthanasia in the Netherlands: revolutionary normality | |
The normative context of the Dutch euthanasia law | |
Dutch social groups on euthanasia: the political spectrum on ending life on request | |
The Dutch social fabric: health care, trust, and solidarity | |
Regulation and Practice Deficiencies | |
The unreported cases | |
Physician-assistance in dying without an explicit request by the patient | |
When requests do not result in euthanasia or assisted suicide | |
Dutch euthanasia in retrospect | |
Quality Assurance | |
Euthanasia consultants: professional assessment before euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands | |
Reviews after the act: the role and the work of regional euthanasia review committees | |
Palliative care and physician-assisted death | |
Learning from the Practice | |
Unbearable suffering and advanced dementia: the moral problems of advance directives for euthanasia | |
Decision making capacity in patients who are in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease and who request physician-assisted suicide | |
Being 'weary of life' as cause for seeking euthanasia of physician-assisted suicide | |
Shared obligations and 'medical friendships' in assisted dying: moral and psychological repercussions reconsidered | |
Depression, euthanasia and assisted suicide | |
End-of-life decisions in children and newborns in the Netherlands | |
Hastening death through voluntary cessation of eating and drinking: a survey | |
The Challenge of Unbearable Suffering | |
The subjectivity of suffering and the normativity of unbearableness | |
Assessment of unbearable and hopeless suffering in evaluating a request to end life | |
Overview | |
The regulation of euthanasia: how successful is the Dutch system? | |
No regrets | |
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