Thursday, April 23, 2020

Dutch Supreme Court judgement on Euthanasia




The Netherlands Supreme Court said doctors could carry out euthanasia if the patient had requested it before they could ‘no longer express their will’. Photograph: Mike Corder/AP
 Doctors in the Netherlands are able to carry out euthanasia on patients with severe dementia without fear of prosecution even if the patient no longer expresses an explicit wish to die, the country’s highest court has ruled.

The supreme court’s decision followed a landmark case last year in which a doctor was acquitted of wrongdoing for euthanising a woman in 2016 with severe Alzheimer’s who had requested the procedure before her condition deteriorated……



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