Doctors bend the laws to euthanize more and more people

The pattern never changes. Euthanasia is legalized under the promise of “strict guidelines” preventing abuse. As time goes on, the strict guidelines are loosened, and then loosened again. Sometimes the process is slow and sometimes fast. But the direction is all one way.

In addition to that, doctors may assist the suicides or lethally inject patients who do not technically qualify for hastened death. Little, if anything, is done about it.

In the Netherlands, such cases have never resulted in meaningful punishment. Ever. Rather, they have been winked at by the authorities, or if prosecuted (rarely), the courts never punished the offender meaningfully.