Shifting Attitudes on Pre-planned Death Raises New Questions for Clinicians

Medicine, Health Care Shifting Attitudes on Pre-planned Death…

Published: September 15, 2017.
Released by Wolters Kluwer Health

Amid changing attitudes toward death and dying, some people with serious physical and/or mental illnesses are claiming a right to choose the time, place, and manner of their death. Discussions about “pre-planned death” pose new challenges for psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals to consider, according to an article in the September Journal of Psychiatric Practice, published by Chinese French German Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish