Patient must have 'unbearable and endless suffering' with 2 doctors carrying out the procedure. FMTNews Dutch
THE HAGUE: Doctors in the Netherlands will be able to conduct assisted suicides on patients with severe dementia without fear of prosecution, even if the patient no longer expressed an explicit death wish, the country’s highest court ruled on Tuesday.
The case hit the headlines in the Netherlands due to details of how the unnamed woman had to be restrained by her family as she was euthanised, after having been given a sedative in her coffee beforehand. Lower Dutch courts however acquitted the doctor of wrongdoing and prosecutors dropped the charges. The case was referred to the Supreme Court for a legal clarification “in the interest of the law”.
But it would have to be under the strict set of rules set by the Netherlands for euthanasia including that the patient must have “unbearable and endless suffering” and that at least two doctors must have agreed to carry out the procedure.
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