Debating Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Death in People with Psychiatric Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

Over the last 30 years, medical assistance in dying (MAiD) including euthanasia (EU) and physician-assisted death (or suicide, PAS) has become the center of a large debate, particularly when these practices have involved people with psychiatric illness, including resistant depression, schizophrenia, personality, or other severe psychiatric disorders. We performed a review utilizing several databases, and by including the most relevant studies in full journal articles investigating the problem of MAiD in patients with psychiatric disorders but not in physical terminal conditions (non-terminal, MAiD-NT).

Recent findings

Literature has shown that a small percentage of people with psychiatric disorders died by MAiD-NT in comparison with patients with somatic di

SUBMITTER: Grassi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9203391 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature