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Loneliness a key factor in Dutch ‘psychiatric’ euthanasia

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

A majority of people killed by euthanasia in the Netherlands for so-called psychiatric reasons had complained of loneliness, a new study has found. Researchers in the US found that loneliness, or “social isolation”, was a key motivation behind the euthanasia requests of 37 of 66 cases reviewed. The study by the National Institute of Health Read more