Palliative care study: euthanasia in the case Concerned not an issue

The current study refuted the alleged desire of seriously ill patients for euthanasia:
With good care, almost no one of the respondents at the end of life “euthanasia”.

A representative survey of stakeholders, mainly with advanced tumor disease, revealed:

Of all of the 778 patients, only two or 0.25 percent, expressed temporarily, the desire for active euthanasia.

Also, a vast majority is in favour of a care (and Die) at home:

81% of the interviewed patients who were able to comment on this, or wanted to, wanted to a discharge home or to care for their families.
15 per cent wanted to be cared for at the palliative care unit of the Wilhelmina hospital, only 1.5 per cent wanted to die in the hospital.

Source: report on ORF online, Vienna (10.05.2009)

Comment:
This is again confirmed once more that the demands for active euthanasia, mainly from people not in the Situation for the most severely ill can feel or want.
Similarly, the reputation leads to further nursing courses in so-called “homes” to the real needs of affected people.

Gerhard Lichtenauer, Austrian Citizens ' Initiative “At home, instead of home”[URL removed-ed.]

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