National Institute of Health - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:57:34 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg National Institute of Health - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Loneliness a key factor in Dutch ‘psychiatric' euthanasia https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/02/23/loneliness-a-key-factor-in-dutch-psychiatric-euthanasia/ Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:05:51 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=80670 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

Loneliness a key factor in Dutch ‘psychiatric' euthanasia... Read more]]> 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 looked at killings carried out between 2011 and 2014.

These were permitted even though a person can qualify for euthanasia under Dutch law only if they are suffering unbearably from an untreatable condition.

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