In April, the Supreme Court ruled that it was no longer necessary to reconfirm with a dementia patient their earlier written request to die.
The ruling means doctors can no longer be prosecuted for carrying out euthanasia on dementia patients.
The devastating move came after a Dutch doctor was taken to court for carrying out an assisted suicide on a patient with Alzheimer’s. Although having a written directive asking for euthanasia in the event that she was admitted to a nursing home due to dementia, she indicated she wanted to determine when ‘the time was right’.
