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May 6, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A record number of almost 7,000 people killed themselves in the Netherlands last year by means of legal euthanasia, with some choosing death out of despair after contracting COVID-19.
The Regional Euthanasia Review Committees (RTE), which keeps track of such deaths and monitors whether the criteria for who is eligible have been met, registered 6,938 deaths last year, which marks a little over a 9 percent increase compared with 2019.
The previous peak was 6,585 deaths in 2017. Numbers fell in 2018 to 6,126 deaths, likely due to the prosecution of euthanasia doctors in the Netherlands and Belgium that proved unsuccessful.
RTE chairman Jeroen Recourt told Trouw that he is not surprised by the record number of euthanasia cases.
“These figures are part of a larger development,” he said. “More and more generations see euthanasia as a solution for unbearable suffering.” He added that the “idea that euthanasia is an option in case of hopeless suffering gives (people) a lot of peace.”
A cancer diagnosis was the most common reason (5,000 cases) for requesting euthanasia.
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