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Exploring the interplay of clinical, ethical and societal dynamics : two decades of medical assistance in dying (MAID) on psychiatric grounds in the Netherlands and Belgium

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VERHOFSTADT, Monica | MARIJNISSEN, Radboud | CREEMERS, Daan | RASING, Sanne | SCHWEREN, Lizanne | STERCKX, Sigrid | TITECA, Koen | VAN VEEN, Sisco | PRONK, Rosalie

This paper explores recently emerging challenges in Medical Assistance in Dying on Psychiatric Grounds (MAID-PG), focusing on ethical, clinical, and societal perspectives. Two themes are explored. First, the growing number of young MAID-PG requestors and the public platform given to MAID-PG requests. Ethically, media portrayal, particularly of young patients' testimonials, requires scrutiny for oversimplification, acknowledging the potential for a Werther effect alongside the absence of a Papageno effect. This highlights the need for better communication policies for media purposes. Second, cautionary considerations regarding psychiatric care adequacy are addressed. In MAID-PG this includes reasons underlying psychiatrist reluctance to engage in MAID-PG trajectories, leading to growing waiting lists at end-of-life-care centers. Addressing current shortages in psychiatric care adequacy is crucial, necessitating less narrow focus on short-term care trajectories and recovery beside transdiagnostic treatment approaches, expanded palliative care strategies, and integrated MAID-PG care.

http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1463813

Voir la revue «Frontiers in psychiatry, 15»

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