Dutch voters support assisted suicide for ‘completed lives’
The results of professional opinion polls on social issues have to be taken with a pinch of salt, unless they indicate huge voter preferences. However,...
Dutch court sentences man to 3½ years for assisting suicides
A Dutch court has sentenced a man to 3½ years in prison for providing contacts with a lethal suicide drug. The man, identified only as...
Are Dutch doctors too willing to euthanise people with autism and intellectual disability?
Will legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide lead to unnecessary deaths because of an able-ist bias against intellectual disability and autism? The records of Dutch euthanasia...
Dutch sperm donor who fathered hundreds of children ordered to stop
A 41-year-old Dutch man who has fathered more than 550 children has been ordered by a court to stop donating sperm. Jonathan Meijer will be...
Netherlands to broaden euthanasia rules to cover children of all ages
Following Belgium, the Netherlands is set to legalise euthanasia for children. Until now, euthanasia was only available for people over 16, children between 12 and...
Dutch sperm donor may have fathered 400 children
A Dutch sperm donor who advertised his services online has fathered at least 80 children and possibly as many as 400. He died of oesophageal...
Right-to-die group wants to liberalise Dutch euthanasia
A radical Dutch right-to-die group has challenged a ban on non-physicians helping people to die, claiming that it is a violation of European human rights...
Dutch health minister wants to clear backlog of requests for euthanasia for mental health reasons
In a report to the Dutch Parliament in late September, the Dutch Minister for Health, Ernst Kuipers, discussed problems with a backlog of euthanasia requests...
Children to be eligible for euthanasia in Netherlands
A significant cohort is currently ineligible for euthanasia in the Netherlands – children aged 1 to 12. The Dutch Minister for Health plans to correct...
Dutch IVF doctor secretly fathered at least 21 children
A third doctor who used his own sperm to inseminate his patients has surfaced in the Netherlands. A DNA investigation has shown that Dr Jan...
Dutch doctors given thumbs-up for euthanasia for dementia patients
The Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) has released guidelines for the euthanasia of patients with dementia who have made a written advance directive. It will...
How long can you put off seeing the doctor because of lockdowns?
One in five people avoided healthcare during lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic, often for potentially urgent problems, according to a study PLOS Medicine. During the...