By the case of Albert Heringa, the debate is further fueled. Heringa gave his 99-year-old mother in 2008 pills, which she her life voluntarily discontinued. She was not ill but felt her life complete, and wanted to die.
Heringa was prosecuted for assisted suicide. He was taken by the court and sentenced, but received no punishment because he had acted out of charity. Heringa went in appeal against the judgment, just as the Public Ministry. Heringa wanted acquittal, the TO wanted Heringa still was punished.
on appeal was Heringa dismissed with prejudice. It is the court of cassation, so the wait is now on the High Council for the final judgment in this case.
In 2014, asked minister Schippers to a commission of wise men, under the leadership of D66-senator Paul Schnabel, in order to examine the legal options for assisted suicide should be expanded.
The commission-Schnabel arrived in February with his conclusion: euthanasia due to a ‘completed life’ should not be allowed. Also, it should committing euthanasia or assisted suicide according to the commission, in the hands of doctors, and not by family members or others will be escorted.
The cabinet comes with a new law and says that people with a ‘completed life’ be given the possibility to help their life to end, under strict conditions. It’s not about euthanasia, because there is no question of unbearable and untreatable suffering.
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