Differential treatment of individuals with mental health conditions in high-consequence decision-making: a comparison of policy on advance directives and assisted suicide in three European countries

Abstract

While both assisted suicide and advance directives relate to potentially high-consequence decision-making, the procedures for assisted suicide requests and expressing preferences through an advance directive typically place such processes outside of acute, emergency scenarios. These contexts allow for the decisions to be well-considered. As such, assisted suicide for individuals with mental health conditions and psychiatric advance directives present two valuable cases to examine how well-considered preferences with potentially high c Show more