Euthanasia Around the World: How Dutch Example Led Way to More Assisted Suicides

Oct 17, 2016 by Jill

from Sputnik:

As the Dutch government proposes extending its assisted suicide law to potentially allow healthy people to die, increasing numbers of people are choosing to end their lives by euthanasia.

On Wednesday the government of the Netherlands announced a controversial plan which may allow healthy people to end their lives. The draft legislation would legalize assisted suicide for people who feel they have “completed life,” but are not necessarily terminally ill. The country’s Ministers for Health and Justice told parliament that people who “have a well-considered opinion that their life is complete, must, under strict and careful criteria, be allowed to finish that life in a manner dignified for them.” Sergey Yenikolopov, head of the Medical Psychology Department at Russia’s Federal Center of Mental Health, told RIA Novosti that he is not in favor of the proposed law because he thinks doctors should be battling suicide, not enabling it.

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