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Debate

Euthanasia Debate (II)

Joachim Jung’s “Withdrawing from Life” challenges Tim Chappell.

I believe that no man ever threw away life, while it was worth keeping.
David Hume, On Suicide

In no country is the application of euthanasia as widely accepted as in the Netherlands. As early as 1984 the Dutch Supreme Court sanctioned individual cases of euthanasia, some of them dating back to the 1970s. The progressive liberalization of assisted suicide culminated in a comprehensive euthanasia law passed by the Dutch Parliament on 10 April 2001. This Act stipulates that physicians can prescribe death-inducing drugs for patients who want to end their lives because they are “facing incurable and unendurable suffering” (uitzichtloos en ondraaglijk lijden).

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