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Netherlands: Legalization of the euthanasia of children between the ages of 1 and 12 without their consent.

Author / Source : IEB Published on : 05/02/2024 Thematic : End of life / Euthanasia and assisted suicide News Temps de lecture : 1 min.

In 2022, this same professor said: "Euthanasia is not the right word, because the law on euthanasia does not apply here. [Euthanasia] is based on the capacity to give consent, which the patient can request for his or her own end of life. These children are not always capable of doing so. Active interruption of life is the right term". Beyond the impossibility for these children to consent to such a serious and irreversible act, the major ethical concern remains the fact of considering...