One out of 25 in the Netherlands died of euthanasia in 2020

• With 6938 deaths by euthanasia, this accounted for 4.12% of all deaths. (If the estimated 15,000 extra deaths from Covid-19 were put aside, the rate would be 4.52%)
• There were two cases of euthanasia for Covid-19 in 2020.
• With one more case of child euthanasia (a boy aged 12-16), a total of 16 children aged 12-17 have been euthanised since 2002.
• The Supreme Court’s decision allowing surreptitiously sedating a person with dementia in order to ensure non-resistance to euthanasia “requested” in an advanced directive is being put into effect, with two cases in 2020.
• Abandonment of hope and affirmation of despair are continuing to be pursued as a legitimate response to people with mental illness. Included in the 88 cases reported for 2020 was a 60-70 year old woman with an intellectual disability euthanised for depression.
• There were 235 cases of a “stack of old age disorders”.
• In 7% of cases of attempted assisted suicide by ingesting an oral barbiturate, death was delayed and the doctor administered euthanasia drugs intravenously.

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