17-year-old euthanized in Belgium in first ever underage case

‘Belgium – a country with an 800% spike in euthanasia over a period of 10 years – has just euthanized its first underage person. This follows a 2014 law allowing minors to be euthanized in particularly critical cases.
Not much information was given to the press by physicians from the national committee for euthanasia. It was merely reported that the person was a minor, and that they were critically ill, according to Reuters.
Wim Distelmans, who chairs Belgium’s Federal Control and Evaluation Committee on Euthanasia, wrote in an email that the procedure was performed last week by a local doctor.’
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