{"id":8943,"date":"2019-01-18T14:53:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2019-04-11T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:08:53","slug":"death-on-demand-has-euthanasia-gone-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8943","title":{"rendered":"Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <strong>The Guardian <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">\nChristopher de Bellaigue\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Last year a Dutch doctor called Bert Keizer was summoned to the house of a man dying of lung cancer, in order to end his life.  . . . Keizer is one of around 60 physicians on the books of the  Levenseindekliniek, or End of Life Clinic, which matches doctors willing  to perform euthanasia with patients seeking an end to their lives, and  which was responsible for the euthanasia of some 750 people in 2017. . . 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