Council of State: more guarantees needed in law on completed life
The Council of State believes that the private member’s bill for a voluntary end of life is not yet good enough. More guarantees are needed to establish that people are really eligible for euthanasia, the advisory department determined in December 2020. The advice was only published this Friday.
The law is about euthanasia for people who do not want to die because they are terminally ill, but for another reason. According to the highest advisory body, it is important that it can be established that people really want to die, have thought about it well and no longer have any doubts and that their death wish is not related to other problems, such as money. The Council of State recommends building in more safeguards before the bill of former D66 MP Pia Dijkstra is considered.