February 19, 2010:  A Dutch citizens action group "Out of Free Will" ("Uit Vrije Wil") wants to legalize assisted suicide for all people over 70, who have an "explicit, logical and consistent" desire to end their life. They suggest the task should be carried out by a new kind of specially trained and certified professional.

/ February 16, 2010: Within the scope of Dutch RtD Society NVVE's  strategy to broaden the situations in which assistance in dying should be made legally possible, a number of activities have been undertaken: documentaries on Dementia and euthanasia, on psychiatric illness and euthanasia and on "completed life" have been produced and broadcasted on national television. A special week was organised beginning this month to promote a discussion on the completed life issue. For more information

 February 16, 2010:  Dutch researchers, headed by Roeline Pasman,  from the VUmc Amsterdam, have looked into the concept of unbearable suffering in the context of ungranted requests for euthanasia. The objective was to obtain in-depth information about the views of both doctors and patients on suffering in ungranted or not performed euthanasia requests.

January 31, 2010: In the book "Redeemer under God", recently published by researcher Anne-Mei The, Els Borst was quoted as having said that she may have made a mistake... and...   now says it was brought in 'far too early'.  Without elaborating, she admitted that medical care for the terminally-ill had declined since the law came into effect.

Mrs Borst herself rebutted the assumptions in a letter to the editor of a Dutch paper (NRC).

/  January 31, 2010 Two researchgroups from Belgium and the Netherlands (the End-of-life Care Research Group from VU Brussels and the EMGO VUmc Amsterdam group) published a theoretical study into the practice of End-of-Life Consultation Services, developped in both countries: Establishing specialized health services for professional consultation in euthanasia: experiences in the Netherlands and Belgium.

November 30, 2009: A new book, published by Anne-Mei The, a well known D

November 26, 2009: At a symposium, organised by the Dutch RtD Society NVVE on end of life decisions and mental diseases, it was recorded that, although people suffering from an incurable mental disease have the same legal right to euthanasia as a person suffering from physical ailments, such psychiatric patients almost never get it.

October 19, 2009: The Dutch government will not give in to the call from the UN  H

October 7,  2009: According to the Dutch Law, each euthanasia case has to be reported to and reviewed by one of the (5) Regional Review Committees.

September 30, 2009: HUMAN Media (the Dutch humanistic broadcast foundation) has recently provided an English subtitled version of the Dutch documentary called "Mag ik dood?" ("Please let me die"), dealing with the problem of the lack of help for people with a chronic mental illness who wish to die. Documentary maker Eveline van Dijck takes you along in her search for answers, after the suicide of her sister Cathma.