

Assisted suicide

Theory and practice

Helping someone to die is illegal, but most who do will escape prosecution

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Mike Martin

Euthanasia was not and is not legal in the Netherlands. There is provision in the law that may exempt medical practitioners from punishment, provided that they follow certain prescribed procedures and a regional review committee is subsequently satisfied that the due care criteria were adequately met.

In the event that a committee decides in a specific case that they were not, then the exemption is lifted and the practitioner is subject to prosecution,


The child who cried Emperor in naked

Beware of 'sliding slope'.

In Netherlands, euthanasia was legalised under similar rules - that perfectly consious middle-aged person facing fainful suffering can die.

Nowadays, euthanised are mostly elderly, many of whom suffer from dementia in some form, and nobody seriously checks for the pressure from family.


We should legalise. In these difficult times, we simply cannot afford to give so much valuable business away to competitors without offering some competition.



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