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Euthanasia and assisted suicide in the context of psychiatric disorders: sharing experiences from the Low Countries
Geert Dom 1,2
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Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute, Antwerp University, Belgium
 
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Belgium Professional Association for Medical Specialists in Psychiatry
 
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PC Multiversum, Boechout, Belgium
 
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Zorggroep Alexianen, Tienen, Belgium
 
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Bioethics Institute Ghent and End-of-Life Care Research Group Ghent University, Belgium
 
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Philosophy & Moral Sciences Ghent University, Belgium
 
 
Submission date: 2020-04-01
 
 
Final revision date: 2020-06-16
 
 
Acceptance date: 2020-06-16
 
 
Online publication date: 2020-08-31
 
 
Publication date: 2020-08-31
 
 
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Geert Dom   

Antwerp University (CAPRI, UA)
 
 
Psychiatr Pol 2020;54(4):661-672
 
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Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (E/PAS) in the context of unbearable psychological or emotional suffering related to psychiatric disorders (psychiatric E/PAS) is ahighly debated topic. In Belgium and The Netherlands, the law allows for psychiatric E/PAS since 2002. The aim of this article is to give an overview of the Belgian and Dutch experiences and the questions raised during the last decade of real-life experiences with psychiatric E/PAS. We use the available national data on psychiatric E/PAS to present a quantitative overview of the current situation. In addition, we identified different challenges; i.e. ethical, medicalpsychiatric and legal, that increasingly impact and change the attitudes within the medical and psychiatric professional community towards psychiatric E/PAS.
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