Terminally-ill patients in the Netherlands increasingly receive drugs to render them unconscious until death, according to a study that suggests people are substituting deep sedation for legal euth
The number of Dutch euthanasia cases fell to 2,325, or 1.7 percent of all deaths in 2005, from 2.6 percent in 2001.
Dutch writer J.J. Voskuil has died in what his widow said was a case of euthanasia; a practice which is legal in the Netherlands.
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Nearly 3 years after the death of Steve Guest , a journalist and former media adviser to the Cain Government in Victoria, the coroner still has not handed down a finding.
Dying With Dignity Victoria (DWDV) will hold the annual Steve Guest Day Rally on the steps of Parliament House Victoria on Wednesday, April 16th at 1-2 p.m.
The Symposium will take place on Friday March 28, 2008 in AmsterdamIn 2008 NVVE, the Dutch Right to Die Organisation, celebrates its 35th anniversary.
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