Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-351) and index.

A discussion of the legal rules on euthanasia in Belgium briefly compared with the rules in Luxembourg and the Netherlands / Herman Nys -- The Belgian experience of euthanasia since its legal implementation in 2002 / Etienne Montero Daniel P. Sulmasy / Ethics and the psychiatric dimensions of physician assisted suicide : a view from the United States / Daniel P. Sulmasy -- Assisted dying : the current situation in Flanders : euthanasia embedded in palliative care / Paul Vanden Berghe, Arsène Mullie, Marc Desmet, and Gert Huysmans -- The practice of continuous sedation at the end of life in Belgium : how does it compare to UK practice, and is it being used as a form of euthanasia? / Sigrid Sterckx and Kasper Raus -- 2002-2016 : fourteen years of euthanasia in Belgium : first-line observations by an oncologist / Beboit Beuselinck -- 'A last act of grace'? Organ donation and euthanasia in Belgium / Trevor Stammers -- A life worth living? Disabled people and euthanasia in Belgium / Kevin Fitzpatrick and David Albert Jones -- Euthanasia in patients with intolerable suffering due to an irremediable psychiatric illness : a psychiatric perspective / Joris Vandenberghe -- Euthanasia in children : keep asking the right questions / Stefaan Van Gool and Jan De Lepeleire -- Euthanizing people who are 'tired of life' / Raphael Cohen-Almagor -- Euthanasia in persons with severe dementia / Chris Gastmans -- Some possible consequences arising from the normalisation of euthanasia in Belgium / Calum MacKellar -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide in Belgium : bringing an end to interminable discussion / David Albert Jones -- Psychiatric patients and the culture of euthanasia in Belgium / Willem Lemmens.