title: Responding to a request to hasten death.
abstract: Essential facts Intense media interest and a number of high-profile court cases have kept debate about assisted suicide in the public eye.
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dean
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000941:ethics*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom