Romy had set a date to die: June 19 2023. After more than a decade of struggling with unresolved childhood trauma, an eating disorder and clinical depression, she had decided enough was enough. And ...

2021 FEB 01 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily-- There’s a 7-fold unexplained variation in rates of euthanasia across The Netherlands, reveals an analysis ...

A teenager diagnosed with autism has been euthanized in the Netherlands, and experts are warning of similar dangers in other countries. Key Takeaways: ...

Euthanasia among people with dementia in the Netherlands has nearly tripled since 2020. The number of people with dementia receiving euthanasia rose from 170 in 2020 to 499 last year, according to new ...

A Dutch court will give its verdict Wednesday on a doctor accused of euthanising a patient with severe dementia in a landmark case in the country which pioneered the practice. The unnamed female ...

Six professors of child and adolescent psychiatry are urging colleagues to hold off on granting euthanasia requests from ...

The number of people opting to end their lives through euthanasia because they are suffering from dementia has tripled since ...

CNN — Doctors in the Netherlands may legally euthanize patients with severe dementia who previously provided a written request for the procedure, the country's highest court ruled Tuesday. In the ...

28-year-old Zoraya ter Beek has decided to undergo euthanasia. The reason for the decision is debilitating depression, autism and borderline personality disorder. Under Dutch law, what she is about to ...

Around one in three Dutch doctors would be prepared to help someone with early dementia, mental illness, or who is 'tired of living' to die, reveals a small survey published online in the Journal of ...

ZWOLLE, Netherlands (Reuters) - When a Dutch right-to-die group said in February it would make good on its promise to help members buy a cheap and painless suicide powder dubbed "Substance X", 81-year ...

ZWOLLE, Netherlands (Reuters) - When a Dutch right-to-die group said in February it would make good on its promise to help members buy a cheap and painless suicide powder dubbed "Substance X", 81-year ...