title: Acceptability for French people of physician-assisted suicide.
abstract: Our aim was to understand better how people judge the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide (PAS). We found that, for people in France of all ages and for elderly people with life-threatening illnesses, acceptability is an additive combination of the number of requests for PAS, the patient's age, the amount of physical suffering, and the degree of curability of the illness, not only when judging for hypothetical patients, but also for their spouses and for themselves. PAS can be highly acceptable to people even when the patient does not satisfy all the criteria of legislation about PAS.
authors.affiliation: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches en Psychopathologie, MDR, Universite du Mirail, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Frileux
authors.forename: Maria Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Munoz Sastre
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Antonini
authors.forename: Etienne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mullet
authors.forename: Paul Clay
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Sorum
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D003625:Data Collection; D005602:France; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010819:Physician's Role; D011639:Public Opinion; D018454:Spouses; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000523:psychology*