Response to: "Euthanasia in Dementia: The Gap Between Ethics and Law"

Jenny T van der Steen1, Xu Jingyuan 须静媛1, Lukas Radbruch1

  • 1Department of Public Health and Primary Care (JTS, XJ, MN, HJAS, WPA), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Primary and Community Care and Radboudumc Alzheimer Center (JTS), Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; King's College London (JTS), Cicely Saunders Institute, London, UK; Department of Palliative Medicine (LR), University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Centre for Palliative Medicine (LR), Helios Hospital Bonn, Rhein-Sieg, Germany; Center for Palliative Care (JG), Bethesda Spital AG, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Clinical Research (JG), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; School of Social Work (SSA), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Department of Psychiatric Nursing (MN), Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan; Leiden University Medical Center (HJAS, WPA), University Network for the Care sector Zuid-Holland, Leiden, The Netherlands; Center for Old Age Medicine (WPA), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Family and Community Medicine (DRM), University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.

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