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Psychiatric patients 'suffering' from long waiting times for euthanasia

Psychiatric patients 'suffering' from long waiting times for euthanasia
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Highest ever number of euthanasia procedures in 2020


Highest ever number of euthanasia procedures in 2020
There were more euthanasia procedures than ever before in 2020, according to a new report.
The RTE Regional Euthanasia Review Committees, which each year analyse all deaths by euthanasia and test whether strict criteria have been met, reported 6,938 procedures.
All but two of these were judged to have met the six legal requirements, which include that someone has carefully thought over the request and makes it freely, and is suffering unbearably with no other reasonable prospect of relief.
The number of euthanasia cases exceeds the previous peak of 2017, when there were 6,585 deaths. Numbers fell after a doctor was prosecuted but eventually found not guilty of manslaughter for a controversial procedure involving a woman with advanced dementia. But the 2020 total was a 9% increase on 2019, when there were 6,361 cases. ....

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