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Uluslararası Sağlık Yönetimi ve Stratejileri Araştırma Dergisi , vol.6, no.3, pp.503-514, 2020 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Travel of individuals to visit physicians for a planned death is referred to as Physician Assisted Suicide
(PAS) Tourism. This study was prepared in order to analyze secondary data due to the lack of conceptual
discussion on the phenomenon of PAS Tourism, which has recently been included in the tourism and
health literature. The aim of this study is to examine the studies in the literature, the concept of death that
the individual wants to end his life with the support of a physician, the scope of Physician Assisted
Suicide Tourism, which is seen as a niche market today, the concepts that are compared with this scope
and causing confusion, and finally the legal to examine the functioning of institutions providing Physician
Assisted Suicide services within the framework. As a result, although HDI is prohibited in many countries
and therefore it is not considered as tourism, it is seen that there is such a niche market today and as the
demand for this service increases, the number of countries that have changed the law on HDI is
increasing. It is thought that HDI will commodify health services and bring ethical problems such as
discrimination among patients.