http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/dutch-rss-news/dutch-plea-to-allow-over-70s-to-end-life_23335.html
09/02/2010
Dutch plea to allow over-70s to end life
A group of prominent Dutch has launched a people's initiative for a bill allowing people over 70 to end their lives under professional supervision.
Among the members of the group, named Of Our Own Free Will, are former ministers Frits Bolkestein, Hedy d'Ancona and Jan Terlouw, singer and Unicef ambassador Paul van Vliet and neurologist Dick Swaab, all aged around 70. The essence of the group's proposal is that assisting at suicide should no longer be punishable if several experts have given their agreement according to a narrowly defined procedure.
A people's initiative has to be discussed by the lower house when there are at least 40,000 signatories. The proposal is likely to be opposed by Christian parties in parliament. The group will begin collecting signatures after presenting its proposal to the lower house in The Hague on Tuesday.
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