Tag: Netherlands

Government announcement would see current minimum age of 12 dropped.
Care Not Killing has strongly condemned a Dutch End of Life Bill that would extend euthanasia to anyone over the age of 75, even if they have no illness or disability.
Reaction to the first public comments of a Dutch doctor cleared of murder after sedating, restraining and administering euthanasia to a patient with dementia.
A statement following clarification of a Dutch news report
After 15 years, will the Dutch finally prosecute a euthanasia doctor?
Dutch Government ministers have announced their intention to legislate for assisted suicide for 'people who regard their life as completed'
A woman in her 20s who was sexually abused as a child has been euthanized in the Netherlands on the basis of the resultant PTSD
A study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics suggests that a third of Dutch doctors would assist a patient's suicide in cases of mental illness or dementia, and a fifth would where there was 'tiredness of life' but no physical condition
Euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands continue their relentless rise, newly published official figures confirm
For nine years a member of a Dutch Regional Review Committee, Prof Theo Boer's experience of legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide saw him go from being a supporter of such legislation to concluding: 'we were wrong - terribly wrong, in fact'.
Euthanasia deaths continue their relentless rise in the Netherlands
Answers to key questions regarding recent worrying developments in Belgium and the Netherlands
An analysis of the Lancet review of euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands by Alex Schadenberg
After having legalised assisted suicide, the Dutch now turn against it...