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Netherlands: 20% increase euthanasia cases psychiatric condition
Psychiatrists increasingly open to euthanasia.
Psychiatrists increasingly open to euthanasia.
Between 2003-2023 there was a 9% year increase in UK residents travelling to Switzerland to have assisted dying.
“Overwhelming majority of the public support a change in the law”
Pan-European effort to reinforce the right to end of life decisions and civil liberties.
Of those seeking prescriptions, 66% were cancer patients, 11% suffered neurological disease and 10% heart disease.
This is the second time Pierre Beck is acquitted.
While voters and the coalition government are in favour, doctors are fiercely opposed.
Patient Yuri Hayashi suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Political change may support euthanasia legislation
Bill will be submitted to the health committee for thorough review and discussion.
“Would be a major step forward for compassionate legislation”