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updated: 2 January 2010
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The EAPC Ethics Task Force on
Palliative Care and Euthanasia
(concluded)
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The paper produced by this group of experts,“Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a view from an EAPC Ethics Task Force”, represents the official position of the EAPC. It was published originally in English and French, and has, this far, been translated into Italian, Hungarian, German, Greek and Finnish.
Read about the history of the ethics task force and recent developments: English - French
Also, read about the translation work: English - French
Suggested further reading on recent developments and legal change within Europe:
Griffiths J, Weyers H, Adams M, eds. Euthanasia and Law in Europe. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008 (download Table of Contents). This book is the most comprehensive and detailed work there is on the subject.
As regards the relationship between palliative care and euthanasia, see Hanks G, Cherny N, Christakis N, Fallon MT, Kaasa S, Portenoy RK, eds. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, 4th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, chap. 5.5: «Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide», written by the EAPC ethics taskforce's. Chair, Professor Lars Johan Materstvedt, PhD (philosophy) and Dr Georg Bosshard (medicine).
This chapter also deals with the issue of palliative sedation. So does a new publication of the EAPC; see Cherny NI, Radbruch L, and The Board of the European Association for Palliative Care. «European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) recommended framework for the use of sedation in palliative care». Palliative Medicine 2009; 23: 581-93.
Also see Maltoni M, Pittureri C, Scarpi E, Piccinini L, Martini F, Turci P, Montanari L, Nanni O, Amadori D. «Palliative sedation therapy does not hasten death: results from a prospective multicenter study». Ann Oncol 2009; 20: 1163-9,
and Materstvedt LJ, Bosshard G. «Deep and continuous palliative sedation (terminal sedation): clinical-ethical and philosophical aspects». Lancet Oncol 2009; 10: 622-7.
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