Patient âgé et demande d'euthanasie. Au-delà d'une réponse simpliste
(2002) Gérontologie et société - cahiers de la Fondation nationale de gérontologie — Vol. 101, n° 2, p. 93-102 (2002)
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- Elderly patients confront doctors and nursing staff with demands for euthanasia. These demands reflect intense suffering in which the psychological aspect plays a dominant role. Such demands should be subjected to a thorough examination as a result of which many will be interpreted as desperate calls for help rather than the deep desire to end everything. Nevertheless, in certain cases, elderly people clearly expect doctors to take action to deliberately put an end to their lives. Such people should be sound of mind, free from constraint and well informed. Their coherent and insistent demands should lead to an interdisciplinary conference intended to clarify the issue for the doctor but without relieving him of the responsibility of his decision whatever that might be. © Fondation Nationale de Gérontologie.
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Desmedt, M. (2002). Patient âgé et demande d’euthanasie. Au-delà d’une réponse simpliste. Gérontologie et société - cahiers de la Fondation nationale de gérontologie, 101(2), 93-102. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/70006 (Original work published 2002)