A Comparison of 2001 and 2013Physician-assisted suicide, but not euthanasia, is legal in Switzerland. 1 The Netherlands and Belgium, where euthanasia is legal, regularly monitor the incidence of medical end-oflife practices.2,3 As part of a study in 6 European countries, reliable data on medical end-of-life practices were collected in the German-speaking part of Switzerland in 2001.4 To assess trends in physician-assisted suicide and other medical end-of-life practices, we conducted an identical study in Switzerland in 2013.
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