The editorial by Ira Byock (1) commenting on the report from van den Block et al (2) correctly says that only 22 cases of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (PAS) occurred (1.3% of all 1690 non-sudden deaths), suggesting that this means these actions ‘occur relatively infrequently’. However, there were a further 26 cases of 'life ending drugs without patient request'. Readers should know that this latter category consists of doctors who answered the same question in the same way as the doctors who are counted as having provided euthanasia or PAS, except that in a subsequent question the doctors indicated that the patient had not asked for euthanasia at the time.
December 16, 2021
Professor Lesley Gourlay, University College London, Dr Carlo Perrotta, Monash University, Professor Paul Prinsloo, University of South Africa Chair: Dr Ibrar Bhatt, Queen's University Belfast
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Adrian Pohl arbeitet seit 2008 im Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (hbz). Seit Juni 2010 ist er Koordinator der Arbeitsgruppe der Open Knowledge Foundation zu Open Bibliographic Data. Im Interview berichtet Pohl über die Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Aktiven aus Wissenschaft und Bibliothekswelt.