Physician-Assisted Suicide

Uses

Risks & contraindications

Comparisons

Highlighted claims

• Finnish physician support for allowing PAS was lower than for euthanasia, with only 18% fully agreeing that physicians should be able to assist patients in suicide. — Finnish physicians’ attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a nationwide cross-sectional study
• Very few Finnish physicians agreed that physicians should be punished for assisting in suicide, with only 7% fully agreeing. — Finnish physicians’ attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a nationwide cross-sectional study
• Almost half of Finnish physicians fully agreed that legislation should actively ensure physicians are not prosecuted for assisting in suicide, indicating broad support for legal protection even among those personally opposed. — Finnish physicians’ attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a nationwide cross-sectional study
• Finland shows an unusual reversal from international norms: Finnish physicians supported euthanasia legalisation more than PAS legalisation, whereas in most countries the opposite is true. — Finnish physicians’ attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a nationwide cross-sectional study
• Among Finnish physicians willing to personally participate, there was a paradoxical preference for assisting in suicide over performing euthanasia, despite lower overall support for PAS legalisation. — Finnish physicians’ attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a nationwide cross-sectional study