The rise is partly due to ageing, but euthanasia accounted for 5.9% of all deaths last year, compared with 5.4% in 2023. The RTE said it expects the upward trend to continue, but said explaining why ...

Doctors in the Netherlands have been told to use "great caution" in dealing with euthanasia cases after figures revealed there had been a 10 percent rise in such incidents in the country in 2024.

you shouldn't find it effective in the case of the well-meaning doctor and euthanasia. The Smith/Jones case partly depends on us paying no attention to the intentions of Smith and Jones.

Non-voluntary euthanasia also includes cases where the person is a child who is mentally and emotionally able to take the decision, but is not regarded in law as old enough to take such a decision ...

Euthanasia accounted for 15,343 deaths in 2023 or 4.7% or about 1 in 20 of all deaths in the country. According to a 2023 annual report on medical assistance in dying, assisted dying cases grew ...