The Acceptability of Ending a Patient's Life: A France–Portugal–Spain Comparison.
The views of French, Portuguese, and Spanish people on end-of-life decisions were compared. Two hundred seventy-seven adults from Barcelona, Oporto, and Toulouse judged the acceptability of life-ending procedures in 42 scenarios composed of all combinations of 3 factors: the patient's age (30 or 80...
| Publicado en: | Death Studies Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 28 - 36 |
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