Abstracts

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Notification of acceptance and information regarding presentations will be forwarded to the authors immediately after the reviewing process by e-mail before the 15th of November 2018.

Possible themes

palliative sedation
voluntary stopping eating & drinking
withholding & withdrawing treatment
non-beneficial (futile) treatment
assisted dying
development of the wish to die
vulnerable/disadvantaged groups (e.g. psychiatry, dementia, minors, homeless, prisoners, minorities)
advance directives/requests
(access to) palliative care and end-of-life care
organ donation
determination of death (e.g. neurological, cardiopulmonary)

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