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Information about palliative (92.7%; <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0651) and psychological care options (85.6%; <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0598) was deemed most important in cases of requests for PAS. More than half of the respondents (57.6%; <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0429) were in favour of a formal expert assessment of decisional capacity\u00a0and about 33.4% (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0249) favoured a time span of 14\u2009days between the counselling and prescription of a lethal drug. There was no association between participants who received more requests and a preference for disclosing publicly their willingness to assist with suicide. 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