Incurable Cancer Diseases Clinical Trial
Official title:
Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Prospective, Multi-Centre Trial in Palliative Care Units in Saxony
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."
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Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective