Netherlands: Suicide tips for just EUR17.50

Description:

The NVVE (Dutch Right to Die Association) has opened a new website for members which contains information on how to end their lives in a "humane way without resorting to horrific methods like throwing themselves off a roof or in front of a train."

The report says there are around 1,500 suicides in the Netherlands every year. A large percentage are committed by people over the age of 60. Spokesperson Walburg de Jong says: "These are people who say ‘my life is over but I do not have a classifiable illness, so I am not eligible for euthanasia’. Or people who are sick, but whose doctor does not want to use euthanasia."

[Some notes on other topics are in the Notes section below.]

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Source:

Chesal, Robert. "Suicide tips for just EUR17.50". Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Published on : 12 November 2009 - 4:28pm. <www.rnw.nl/english/article/suicide-tips-just-1750>. Radio Netherlands Worldwide, PO Box 222, 1200 JG Hilversum, The Netherlands.

Notes:
Tags:

Tags (or keywords) briefly indicate some major topics of the report.

  • assisted suicide

  • euthanasia

  • website

  • NVVE, Dutch Right to Die Association

  • Netherlands

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The EuthaNEWSia ID for this advisory is: enid200911127584.
Mailed: Thursday, November 12, 2009 14:52:44 -0600
at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Etcetera:

EuthaNEWSia is a free Canadian news advisory service covering end-of-life issues such as right to die, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. EuthaNEWSia is produced by the Right to Die Society of Canada which works toward a good death for all, including open, regulated and equitable access to euthanasia and assisted suicide. The editor is Michael Dawson <editor@euthanewsia.ca>. 

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