The Belgian model on comprehensive end-oflife care: palliative care and legal euthanasia as complementing, non-antagonistic developments I. Historical, epidemiological and regulatory evidence Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Palliative care (PC) and legal euthanasia are
widely considered as antagonistic societal developments
and causes, originating in fundamentally
different philosophies and conceptions of care.
Pragmatically, the opponents of legal euthanasia
fear: 1. "slippery slope" effects which would endanger
vulnerable patients and 2. that legalisation
would impede the development of PC. Belgium,
the second ...
widely considered as antagonistic societal developments
and causes, originating in fundamentally
different philosophies and conceptions of care.
Pragmatically, the opponents of legal euthanasia
fear: 1. "slippery slope" effects which would endanger
vulnerable patients and 2. that legalisation
would impede the development of PC. Belgium,
the second ...