Doctor to face Dutch prosecution for breach of euthanasia law
(The Guardian Netherlands)

Lawyers claim elderly dementia patient did not clearly state she wanted to dieA doctor who slipped a sedative into a 74-year-old woman´s coffee before administering a lethal drug as members of her family held her down is to be the first medic to be prosecuted for breaching Dutch euthanasia laws.A public prosecutor in The Hague said in a statement that the doctor could not have unambiguously come to the conclusion that the patient wanted to die. Continue reading...