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Dutch academic & watchdog who previously backed Netherlands euthanasia law as safe says: dont make our mistake. In 2007 I wrote that ‘there doesn’t need to be a slippery slope when it comes to euthanasia... But we were wrong - terribly wrong, in fact... Cases have been reported in which... patients could have lived for years or decades... Pressure on doctors to conform to patients’ (or in some cases relatives’) wishes can be intense... I used to be a supporter of the Dutch law. But now, with twelve years of experience, I take a very different view... [Is] the mere existence of such a law is an invitation to see assisted suicide and euthanasia as a normality instead of a last resort?... Once the genie is out of the bottle, it is not likely to ever go back in again.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:19:30 +0000

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