Dutch doctors against ‘life complete’ assisted suicide

‘Medical professionals in the Netherlands have strongly criticized a proposed law that would allow people who believe they have lived their lives to the fullest and have nothing more to gain to seek assisted death.
The Netherlands has already legalized euthanasia, which is professionally assisted suicide of a person who is extremely ill to stop further suffering.
The proposal aims to broaden the existing euthanasia law, making it practically easier for those who feel their lives are complete to end their physical existence.
“Such a radical proposal is not desirable for practical reasons and for reasons of principle,” the Dutch Doctors Federation, representing some 59,000 practitioners and students, said in a statement late Wednesday.
The federation argued that passing another law alongside the euthanasia law will lead to an increase in “the feeling of vulnerability among elderly people and the stigmatization of old age.”‘
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