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Euthanasia
――曹美英 李珊珊 孔阳 刘荟 刘婷 吴永ontent
Ⅰ. What is Euthanasia Ⅱ. The Situation Ⅲ. Euthanasia and Criminal Law
Ⅳ. The Types of Euthanasia Ⅴ. Issues of Euthanasia
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Ⅱ. The Situation
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Netherlands
The Netherlands is the first country in the world where euthanasia is legal. Some twenty years ago, people in the Netherlands, well-intentioned physicians among them, began a process that has made physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia common practice there today. In the Netherlands, in April 2001, a law was passed that allows physicians to perform euthanasia but only when the patient has expressed explicitly the desire to die in order to prevent or end unacceptable suffer. Additionally, the physician must also agree with the patient that he suffers unacceptably and can only co-operate when he or she has consulted two colleagues who agree that euthanasia is acceptable in the given case and under the given circumstances. Given all these conditions, the physician needs the substances with which he can help the patient.