The Netherlands is the first nation to legalize doctor-involved euthanasia. However, the country does not approve suicide assisted by non-physicians.
A Dutch court on Wednesday upheld the Netherlands' ban on, a setback for activists who said the prohibition infringes on their right to determine when their lives end.
The Hague District Court rejected the activists' argument that the ban violated the European Convention on Human Rights. The"right to decide for oneself about one’s own end of life is indeed protected" by the convention, the court said in a written statement."However, this right to self-determination does not go so far that there is also a right to obtain assisted suicide."Frits Spangenberg, chairperson of the group Cooperative Last Will, which brought the case along with 29 individual plaintiffs, said he was disappointed by the ruling, but vowed to fight on.
Campaigners take their hat off in a show of respect for those who took their own lives in The Hague, Netherlands, on Oct. 10, 2022was the first nation to legalize euthanasia. A 2002 law allowed physicians to end the lives of patients under strict conditions, either by administering a fatal dose of drugs or giving the patient the drugs to take.
Assisted suicide, the practice of someone who is not a physician providing a person with a self-administered lethal substance, remains illegal.
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