Table 3.

Key items topic-list

Topics	Sub-topics
The ‘no sneaky euthanasia’ petition	Reasons for signing the petition
	The applicability of the due care criteria to patients with dementia
	Participant’s vision on end-of-life care
Advance euthanasia directives	Frequency of appearance
	The involvement of stakeholders
	Content of AEDa
	Reason to refrain from performing euthanasia based on an AEDa
The request for euthanasia	Experience with requests for euthanasia
	The involvement of stakeholders
	Voluntary and well considered request
	Unbearable suffering without prospect of improvement
	Reasonable alternative treatments
The performance of euthanasia	Experience with performance of euthanasia
	Experienced dilemmas
	Physician’s duty to inform the patient
	Verbal or physical resistance during the performance
	The use of sedative premedication
The emotional burden	Increasing pressure on physicians
	The emotional burden on physicians

This topic-list was composed by the research team (all authors) and based on scientific and grey literature, as well as the public debate and national news items [19]. On account of the iterative process of data collection, the topic-list was revised five times.

^aAED = advance euthanasia directive.