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Civil Disobedience Against Euthanasia Punishment in the Netherlands

The committee that examined to what extent giving help with euthanasia to people without medical complaints - yet consider their lives completed - should remain punishable, sees no urge for an amendment. The...

by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten
(Image: Kim Brookes - Flickr/CC content)

The committee that examined to what extent giving help with euthanasia to people without medical complaints - yet consider their lives completed - should remain punishable, sees no urge for an amendment. The Cooperation Last Will (CLW) won't quit the fight. "If we can't hold an experiment with last-will narcotics for our members, we will make sure that without a doctor we will collect the pills," said secretary Gert Rebergen. CLW opts for civil disobedience by advising people who wish to end their lives. Thus, CLW aims to provoke a court trial.

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