Mental Health - Widower Experience (WX)

Assistance in Dying with Dignity There are different forms of assistance in dying. Passive euthanasia - Allowing to die by forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment or high-dose, life-shortening pain treatment, such as morphine (indirect euthanasia), are forms of euthanasia that a patient can make binding in a good living will.  Active euthanasia - Killing on demand, in which a doctor injects a lethal substance into the patient at his request is prohibited in Germany and in Switzerland.  Assisted suicide or suicide assistance (by physicians or others) with a self-determined end of life - is expressly permitted – and even declared a fundamental right by the Federal Constitutional Court. In contrast with the different forms of “euthanasia”, the decision-making process remains with the person (as outlined below) who wishes to end their own life. The patient decides on the end of their life and intentionally brings about his/her own death. In Germany and a few other countries, th...

I am convinced that the individual and general right of personality of everybody encompasses a right to an autonomous living and also a self-determined death. I firmly believe in freedom, respect and dignity and as a last consequence it must include the freedom to take one’s own life and, as the case may be, resort to assistance provided voluntarily by third parties for this purpose. When I talk about third parties - I think of medical, anesthetic, professional, and psychological support by experts - experts like medical practitioner, psychologist, and other experts perhaps also palliative and hospice care. It should be beyond all question that the consideration and the act of a self-determined death and assisted dying isn’t easy for anybody. When an individual decides to end their own life - came to this ultimate decision - basing and founding on individual and personal definitions of their own thinking, perception and believing of their quality of life and a meaningful existence. ...

Ich bin überzeugt, dass das individuelle und allgemeine Persönlichkeitsrecht eines jeden Menschen ein Recht auf ein selbstbestimmtes Leben und ebenso für ein selbstbestimmtes Sterben umfasst. Ich glaube fest an Freiheit, Respekt und Würde und dies muss in letzter Konsequenz auch die Freiheit einschließen, sich das Leben zu nehmen und gegebenenfalls auf freiwillige, helfenden dritten Beteiligten zurückzugreifen. Wenn ich von dritten Beteiligten und Personen spreche, denke ich an medizinische, anästhetische und psychologische Betreuung durch Experten – Experten wie Heilpraktiker, Psychologen und andere Experten - was auch Palliativ- und Hospizversorgung einschließt je nach individuellem Fall. Es sollte außer Frage stehen, dass die Überlegung und die Durchführung eines selbstbestimmten Sterbens und Sterbehilfe für niemanden einfach ist. Wenn ein Individuum beschließt, sein eigenes Leben zu beenden - kam zu dieser endgültigen Entscheidung - basierend auf individuellen und persönlichen D...