"Nothing Hurts Less Than Being Dead": Psychological Pain in Case Descriptions of Psychiatric Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide from the Netherlands: « Rien ne fait moins mal qu'etre mort »: La douleur psychologique dans les descriptions de cas d'euthanasie et de suicide assiste psychiatrique aux Pays-Bas.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) of individuals with mental disorders is a growing practice in several countries, including the Netherlands. Here, we aimed to identify the most frequent dimensions of and associated factors to psychological pain, which has been associated with suicidality, in individuals undergoing psychiatric EAS.

Methods

An exploratory retrospective content analysis of the English translation of 66 digital case records of individuals who died by EAS in the Netherlands between 2011 and 2014 was performed. Nine standard psychological pain dimensions (irreversibility, loss of control, emptiness, emotional flooding, freezing, social distancing, narcissistic wounds, confusion, and self-estrangement), illness, and sociodemographic variables were e

SUBMITTER: Lengvenyte A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7485035 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature