Prawne aspekty eutanazji w Holandii

Grzegorz Stefanowicz

doi:10.25167/osap.1486

Legal aspects of euthanasia in Nederlands

Grzegorz Stefanowicz

Uniwersytet Opolski

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25167/osap.1486

Abstract

This article undertakes to show the way that has led to the statutory decriminalization of euthanasia-related murder and assisted suicide in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It presents the evolution of the views held by Dutch society on the euthanasia related practice, in the consequence of which death on demand has become legal after less than thirty years. Due attention is paid to the role of organs of public authority in these changes, with a particular emphasis put on the role of the Dutch Parliament – the States General. Because of scarcity of space and limited length of the article, the change in the attitudes toward euthanasia, which has taken place in the Netherlands, is presented in a synthetic way – from the first discussions on admissibility of a euthanasia-related murder carried out in the 1970s, through the practice of killing patients at their request, which was against the law at that time, but with years began more and more acceptable, up to the statutory decriminalization of euthanasia by the Dutch Parliament, made with the support of the majority of society.

Keywords:

euthanasia, euthanasia in Holland, euthanasia-related murder, assisted suicide

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2016-05-31

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Stefanowicz, G. (2016). Legal aspects of euthanasia in Nederlands. The Opole Studies in Administration and Law, 14(3), 243–253. https://doi.org/10.25167/osap.1486

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