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Record W4414180100 · doi:10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.194

Euthanasia and assisted death from a Spanish perspective

2025· article· en· W4414180100 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Manuel Martín-Carrasco

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Psychiatry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPalliative and Oncologic Care
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContext (archaeology)Perspective (graphical)Terminally illMental illnessAssisted suicideEthical issues

Abstract

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Abstract Medical assistance in dying is an increasingly available option for people suffering (solely) from psychiatric disorders. Initially promoted to alleviate the suffering of terminally ill people, a growing number of jurisdictions are adopting it for any cause of intractable and severe suffering, including mental disorders. Today, the BENELUX countries, along with Spain and Switzerland, explicitly authorise it or allow it de facto. Other countries, such as Canada, are considering implementing it. Although in jurisdictions where it is permitted it is argued that it is discriminatory not to consider mental suffering as sufficient cause, there are reasons for concern. The procedure is likely to be used as an alternative to care, that is, as a gentler form of suicide, more commonly used by women. The long-term impact of this practice must be considered, as it sends the message that mental illnesses may not be curable, and that it is not worth the effort to treat them, or to demand the necessary care. Furthermore, all of these factors must be considered in the context of highly stigmatized disorders to which clearly scarce resources are allocated. Disclosure of Interest None Declared

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.053

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.005
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0050.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.039
GPT teacher head0.347
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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