Study of the Life Stories of Patients Making a Request for Euthanasia, in the Context of Advanced Cancer. (RECIFE)

Léon Bérard Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Advanced Cancer

Treatments: Other: free interview, and questionnaires in a second time

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05884788

ET22000324

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study wishes to focus on the life course of patients, beyond the moments of suffering experienced at the time of the request for euthanasia. It is based on the perspective that the patient's account of his or her life course can be a source of information for better understanding and accompanying patients requesting euthanasia.

Enrollment: 7 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Major patients
• With cancer in the palliative phase, i.e. with an incurable disease according to current knowledge.
• Expressing a request for euthanasia in terms evoking a request for death with the intervention of an outside person.
• Non-opposition to the study after full written information.

Exclusion criteria

• Severe decompensated psychiatric pathology
• Vulnerable persons defined here as pregnant women, parturients and persons under legal protection or unable to express their consent
• Inability to conduct an interview