TY - JOUR
T1 - “Please help me die”: applying self-determination theory to understand suicide travel
AU - Yu, Chung-En
AU - Wen, Jun
AU - Goh, Edmund
AU - Aston, Joshua
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to express their gratitude to Professor Eva Brucker from Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria, for her valuable feedback and directions on this paper.
PY - 2019/7/15
Y1 - 2019/7/15
N2 - At the age of 104, renowned Australian scientist Professor David Goodall travelled to Switzerland in 2018 to commit physician-assisted suicide (PAS). His last words were “My life has been rather poor for the last year or so. And I’m very happy to end it” (Blouin, Citation2018). In fact, Dr. Goodall is among 611 people from 31 countries who have travelled to Switzerland to engage in PAS (Wilson, Citation2014). The tourism literature refers to this phenomenon as suicide travel: individuals visit countries such as Switzerland and Luxembourg to die legally, thus circumventing restrictions prohibiting death by suicide in their home country (Mondal & Bhowmik, Citation2018).
AB - At the age of 104, renowned Australian scientist Professor David Goodall travelled to Switzerland in 2018 to commit physician-assisted suicide (PAS). His last words were “My life has been rather poor for the last year or so. And I’m very happy to end it” (Blouin, Citation2018). In fact, Dr. Goodall is among 611 people from 31 countries who have travelled to Switzerland to engage in PAS (Wilson, Citation2014). The tourism literature refers to this phenomenon as suicide travel: individuals visit countries such as Switzerland and Luxembourg to die legally, thus circumventing restrictions prohibiting death by suicide in their home country (Mondal & Bhowmik, Citation2018).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85069041143&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13032917.2019.1642923
DO - 10.1080/13032917.2019.1642923
M3 - Comment/debate/opinion
SN - 1303-2917
VL - 30
SP - 450
EP - 453
JO - Anatolia
JF - Anatolia
IS - 3
ER -
