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Euthanasia (the deliberate administration of a lethal drug to hasten death in a suffering patient) is officially a crime in the Netherlands, punishable by up to 12 years in prison, but its practice has been accepted there for over 20 years, protected by a body of case law and strong public support. Adding to the legal ambiguity, the Royal Dutch Medical Association issued guidelines for the practice of euthanasia in 1984, and they were endorsed by a government-appointed commission on euthanasia a year later.^1,2 The guidelines require that four conditions be met before euthanasia is performed: (1) the patient must . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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