Legalising euthanasia is more likely to increase overall suicides rather than reduce them, a European-wide study has claimed.
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre’s research, published in the Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, found the legalisation of euthanasia or assisted suicide was followed by ‘considerable increases in suicide and in intentional self-initiated death’.
The study analysed suicides, euthanasia, and assisted suicide data from the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland between 1990 and 2016.
