title: [Euthanasia in advanced dementia: a moral impossibility].
abstract: Advance directives containing a request for euthanasia in cases of severely debilitating dementia are of no use. In such an advanced stage of the disease, the doctor would have to administer lethal medication to a patient who does not realise what is happening to him/her. The Dutch Euthanasia Act is ambivalent about this possibility.
authors.affiliation: Flevohuis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. keizer47@gmail.com
authors.forename: A A Bert
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Keizer
mesh_terms: D024362:Advance Directive Adherence / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology*; D016223:Advance Directives; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D033101:Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D016743:Mental Competency