Table 4 Various legislation in Europe

Legalisation of active euthanasia

Decriminalisation of active euthanasia if medical assisted suicide not possible

Active euthanasia forbidden but possibility of assistance at the end of life to alleviate suffering, passive euthanasia accepted, and patients ‘right to refuse life sustaining treatments (avoid unreasonable obstinacy )

Active euthanasia and medical assisted suicide strictly forbidden by the law

Active euthanasia strictly forbidden by the law but possibility to request medical assisted suicide as an exception / or

decriminalisation of it

Active euthanasia strictly forbidden by the law but medical assisted suicide not forbidden

Legalisation of medical assisted suicide

Netherlands,

Belgium,

Luxembourg,

Spain

Portugal

Hungary, Czech

Republic, Slovakia,

Germany, France,

Denmark, Finland,

Estonia, Sweden,

Croatia,

Switzerland, Greece,

Slovenia, Norway,

United Kingdom

Bulgaria,

Poland, Cyprus,

Malta, Latvia,

Lithuania,

Ireland, Czech

Republic,

Romania,

Denmark,

Hungary,

Norway, United

Kingdom

Italy/ Austria

Germany

Switzerland,