An article published in The Journal Pediatrics features comments by proponents and opponents of child euthanasia. Of particular concern are comments by Dutch experts in the articles who recommend the Minister of Health to remove age restrictions and make euthanasia accessible for competent and incompetent children. Read more >>
Citing feeling “devoured by my psychiatric disorders” and “completely broken”, a 29 year-old woman without any terminal illness has been approved for euthanasia for psychiatric reasons in the Netherlands. Read more >>
A medical ethicist has resigned from a Dutch regional assessment committee for euthanasia over a law which allows non-consenting demented patients to be euthanised. For ten years Berna van Baarsen helped to assess whether euthanasia had been performed in accordance with the law in the North Holland region.
Continue Reading → Dissent in Dutch euthanasia bureaucracy:
The Dutch News reported that the number of reported assisted deaths increased by 10% in 2016 to 6091 reported assisted deaths, representing 4% of all deaths in the Netherlands. Read more >>
Continue Reading → NETHERLANDS: Netherlands 2016 euthanasia deaths increase by another 10%
As reported by The Guardian News, the number of euthanasia deaths will exceed 7000 in 2017 representing, at least, a 67% increase in deaths since 2012. Read more >>
Continue Reading → NETHERLANDS: Euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands increasing quickly