Warning bells ring in the Netherlands
Life | Experts point out the repercussions of legalizing assisted suicide
by Leah Hickman
Posted 9/21/20, 04:40 pm
As countries around the world consider legalizing assisted suicide, strong voices out of the Netherlands warn of a slippery moral and ethical slope. In a Dutch medical journal last month, one of the Netherlands’ most prominent euthanasia providers chronicled how the practice easily went beyond its original limits. A different Dutch ethicist testified before the British Parliament this month that legalizing assisted dying leads to an increase of nonassisted suicides.