Faculty of Medicine, Porto University, Portugal.
Faculty of Medicine, CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Porto University, Portugal.
Omega (Westport). 2021 Sep;83(4):927-943. doi: 10.1177/0030222819871182. Epub 2019 Aug 29.
This article analyzes suicidal behavior and how its inherent processes of death ideation can overlap with those seeking euthanasia. We present a literature review of three main events in suicide (suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and suicide) in different populations and evaluate implications for health-care practice and risk assessment taking into account the context of euthanasia. We ponder upon the motives behind suicide and its link with wish to die requests to hasten death. We discuss the possibility of the reversal of a wish to die as well as a potential process of differentiating between individuals who would maintain their wish and benefit from termination of life and others who would later change their minds.
本文分析了自杀行为以及其内在的死亡意念过程如何与寻求安乐死的过程相重叠。我们对不同人群中的自杀（自杀意念、自杀未遂和自杀）三个主要事件进行了文献回顾，并考虑到安乐死的背景，评估了对医疗保健实践和风险评估的影响。我们思考了自杀背后的动机及其与希望加速死亡的死亡请求的联系。我们讨论了逆转死亡意愿的可能性，以及区分那些希望结束生命并从中受益的个体和那些以后可能改变主意的个体的潜在过程。
