Clinical trial · Observational
Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes Towards Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Prospective, Multi-Centre Trial in Palliative Care Units in Saxony
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Euthanasia and assisted dying are of growing interest for patients with incurable diseases. The possible methods are widely discussed by patient-societies, physicians, lawyers, theologians and philosophers. During the last years several opinion-polls were conducted with healthy people or medical stuff, but no surveys were conducted to get the attitude of incurable ill patients. The hypothesis of the investigators' study is: "Palliative Care Medicine is a better option for incurable ill patients than an assisted suicide."
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incurable Cancer Diseases | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Other Incurable Diseases | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
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Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- label
- 1
- description
- Patients receiving palliative care due to incurable illness
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Patients intention to assisted suicide
- timeFrame
- up to four weeks after beginning of palliative treatment
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Age \>= 18 years * Incurable illness * Mental state thet allows to answer a questionnaire Exclusion Criteria: * Somnolence * Low mental state * Curable disease * Depression with danger of acute suicide
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