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The Netherlands Launches Mobile Euthanasia Units

Written: 2012-03-02 12:04:38Updated: 2012-03-02 14:35:54

A mobile euthanasia service has been launched in the Netherlands roughly a decade after the practice was legalized by the Dutch.

The group Right-To-Die Netherlands says it has formed six teams of doctors and nurses who will carry out the euthanasia at patients’ homes from this month for those who comply with the criteria.

Right-To-Die says after its announcement it was contacted by 70 patients interested in the service. The group projects it will receive around one-thousand more applications over the next year.

The Netherlands legalized euthanasia in 2002 and roughly three-thousand-100 people have been euthanized under strict regulations since then.

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