Dying with dignity: developments in the field of euthanasia in The Netherlands
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Medicine and Law
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
The development of the debate on euthanasia in The Netherlands, the role of the courts and proposals for legislation are discussed. In foreign newspapers and other publications an erroneous picture of the Dutch situation on euthanasia is sometimes given. In Parliament two proposals for legislation are pending. The parliamentary debate is expected to be reopened in 1989.