Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA; and Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Br J Psychiatry. 2022 Jan;220(1):10-13. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2021.95.
The preponderance of women among persons who request and receive euthanasia and assisted suicide based on a psychiatric condition, as shown by data from The Netherlands and Belgium, is virtually unexplored. We provide a critical discussion of this gender gap, and propose that it can inform a key debate point in the controversy over the practice, namely its conflict with suicide prevention.
在基于精神状况而请求并接受安乐死和协助自杀的人群中，女性占绝大多数，这一点从荷兰和比利时的数据中可见一斑，但这一现象几乎没有得到探讨。我们对这种性别差距进行了批判性的讨论，并提出它可以为关于该实践的争议中的一个关键辩论点提供信息，即它与预防自杀之间的冲突。
