A Dutch court will give its verdict Wednesday on a doctor accused of euthanising a patient with severe dementia in a landmark case in the country which pioneered the practice. The unnamed female ...

CNN — Doctors in the Netherlands may legally euthanize patients with severe dementia who previously provided a written request for the procedure, the country's highest court ruled Tuesday. In the ...

ZWOLLE, Netherlands (Reuters) - When a Dutch right-to-die group said in February it would make good on its promise to help members buy a cheap and painless suicide powder dubbed "Substance X", 81-year ...

According to a report by the regional euthanasia review committee (RTE), cited by the news portal Hirado, 10,341 people died by euthanasia in 2025, and while three-quarters of the applicants were over ...

28-year-old Zoraya ter Beek has decided to undergo euthanasia. The reason for the decision is debilitating depression, autism and borderline personality disorder. Under Dutch law, what she is about to ...

Around one in three Dutch doctors would be prepared to help someone with early dementia, mental illness, or who is 'tired of living' to die, reveals a small survey published online in the Journal of ...