The number of doctor-assisted suicide cases reported in the Netherlands grew by 559 between the years of 2010 and 2011, a commission says. The Euthanasia Commission, set up by the government, found that doctor-reported cases made up about 2.7 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2011, from 2.3 percent in 2010.
[Note: This article erroneously states that euthanasia in the Netherlands is permitted only if patients are terminally ill. The law does not require that the patient have a terminal illness.]
Washington Post
“Number of assisted suicide cases reported by Dutch doctors rose in 2011”
September 26, 2012
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