One in 25 Dutch deaths is euthanasia
Iain Taylor / Christian Concern
In 2020, 4.3% of deaths in the Netherlands
were due to euthanasia.
The official Regional Euthanasia Review
Committees (RTE), revealed that a total of
6,938 people asked to be euthanased (which
includes both ‘termination of life on request’
and ‘assisted suicide’) and died through the
medical procedure legalised two decades ago.
Belgian euthanasia law ‘broken’ says study
Iain Taylor / Christian Concern
Three
leading Belgian
academics have
argued that the country’s euthanasia law
is so unfit for purpose that it is effectively
broken beyond repair.
The
study,
‘Euthanasia
in Belgium:
Shortcomings of the Law and Its Application
and Monitoring of Practice’, by Kasper
Raus, Bert Vanderhaegen and Sigrid Sterckx
of Ghent University,
is published
in
the
February issue of The Journal of Medicine
and Philosophy.