Media coverage of belgium`s first criminal case concerning euthanasia for psychiatric patients: a content analysis of flemish newspapers and magazines

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    The Belgian Euthanasia Law, that came into force on the 23rd of September 2002, stipulates substantive and procedural requirements that must be met for euthanasia on the grounds of unbearable suffering caused by a psychiatric disorder to be legally performed. The patient`s family filed a Euthanasia, defined as the intentional ending of a patient`s life through the administration of life-ending drugs by a physician at the explicit patient`s request, is only permitted by law in a small number of countries or regions worldwide. In recent years, the percentage of euthanasia . . .

     

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