Taking one's own life in hospital? Patients and health care professionals vis- à-vis the tension between assisted suicide and suicide prevention in Switzerland - Reiter-Theil S, Wetterauer C, Frei IA.

In Switzerland, the practice of lay right-to-die societies (RTDS) organizing assisted suicide (AS) is tolerated by the state. Patient counseling and accompaniment into the dying process is overtaken by RTDS lay members, while the role of physicians may be ...
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