Last Will provides advice to members on how to obtain lethal drug to end their livesBelgian prosecutors are to investigate a right-to-die group that has been offering advice on the use of a “suicide powder”. Euthanasia by doctors is legal in both Belgium and the Netherlands when patients of sound mind are in “unbearable suffering” and have made repeated requests to die. That advice followed a prosecutor’s inquiry into the death of a 19-year-old woman who had purchased the powder online. Belgian law is similar to that of the Netherlands in criminalising those who help the suicidal to purchase a lethal drug for the purpose of killing themselves. In the 19 years since doctors were given the right to legally kill patients, more than 10,000 people have been euthanised in Belgium.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2019 11:26 UTC