Posts Tagged ‘Wim Distelmans’

One ‘psychological’ euthanasia death in Belgium each week

Friday, July 3rd, 2015

One person a week in Belgium is opting to die by euthanasia for psychological reasons. The figure was revealed by Wim Distelmans, chairman of the Federal Euthanasia Commission. He said bipolar patients were the majority of 50-60 “psychiatric suicides” last year. “Mostly they’re not old, but they’ve suffered for a long time,” he said Last Read more