Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes Towards Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH200 enrolled

Overview

Euthanasia and assisted dying are of growing interest for patients with incurable diseases. The possible methods are widely discussed by patient-societies, physicians, lawyers, theologians and philosophers. During the last years several opinion-polls were conducted with healthy people or medical stuff, but no surveys were conducted to get the attitude of incurable ill patients. The hypothesis of the investigators' study is: "Palliative Care Medicine is a better option for incurable ill patients than an assisted suicide."

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

200

Conditions

Incurable Cancer Diseases Other Incurable Diseases

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Age \>= 18 years * Incurable illness * Mental state thet allows to answer a questionnaire Exclusion Criteria: * Somnolence * Low mental state * Curable disease * Depression with danger of acute suicide

Locations (1)

Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Patients intention to assisted suicide

Time frame: up to four weeks after beginning of palliative treatment

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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