Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Review of the Literature and Description of a Clinical Case)

S. Nehrych, M. Papish, M. Shorobura Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a slowly progressive degenerative polyetiological incurable disease of the central nervous system which causes muscle paralysis and atrophy due to the degeneration of the upper and lower motor neurons. As the disease doesn’t usually affect cognitive abilities, the Read More …