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Theo Boer is a Dutch medical ethicist who has changed his mind on euthanasia. This is an article he wrote for the UK's Dail Mail warning the House of Lords not to pass an "assisted dying" bill.

In 2001 The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia and, along with it, assisted suicide. Various safeguards were put in place to show who should qualify and doctors acting in accordance with these safeguards would not be prosecuted. Because each case is unique, five regional review committees were installed to assess every case and to decide whether it complied with the law...

read « We were wrong, says former regulator of Dutch euthanasia »

The Belgian law passed on 28 May 2002 and authorising euthanasia imposes the following condition, namely that the patient must be suffering from a "serious, incurable disease".

Eleven years later, an extension to the practice is about to be approved, but numerous spin-offs have been noted...

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