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.
Belgium enacted its first euthanasia laws in 2002, which have since been hailed as models for assisted-dying reform around the world. Its position was followed by Canada in 2016, and Portugal and Spain are reportedly set to embrace it too.
