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The first explicit steps towards legislation to regulate the conditions under which physician-assistance in dying in the Netherlands is allowed were already set in the late 70s and early 80s of the previous century. In 1973 in the so-called Postma case, a physician helped her mother to end her life upon her explicit and repeated request. The court judged that the physician had committed murder, but gave her only a suspended sentence while explicitly acknowledging that it is not in all circumstances the physician’s duty to do anything to prolong their patient’s life.
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van der Heide, A. (2017). Physician-Assisted Dying in the Netherlands. In: Borasio, G., Jox, R., Taupitz, J., Wiesing, U. (eds) Assistierter Suizid: Der Stand der Wissenschaft. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik der Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52669-9_3
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