Dutch right-to-die group fights to widen legal euthanasia boundaries


FILE PHOTO: An unidentified man suffering from Alzheimer's disease and who refused to eat sleeps peacefully the day before passing away in a nursing home in the Netherlands. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS)

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A right-to-die group told judges on Monday that a Dutch law which allows physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands but criminalises others who help people end their own lives violates European human rights law and must be declared unlawful.

"We believe it should be possible to provide the means to be able to humanely end your own life if you want to and feel it is time," Jos van Wijk of Cooperative Last Will, who filed a case together with 29 individual plaintiffs against the Dutch state, said in court.

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