“It’s terrible when a youngster suffers, but it gives me some comfort to know that now there is a choice out there for children in the final terminal stages,” De Gucht said. In Holland, the lower age limit for euthanasia is 12 years. PARIS—A terminally ill minor has been helped to die in Belgium for the first time since the country did away with age restrictions on euthanasia two years ago, according to the senator who wrote the law. The Belgian law has very strict rules for the euthanasia to be approved. Catholic teaching forbids euthanasia and the president of the Italian bishops conference on Saturday described the news of the euthanasia of a child as painful and worrisome.

Source: thestar September 17, 2016 18:16 UTC