Dutch prosecutors are being asked to examine the case of an elderly woman who was reportedly drugged and then pinned down while a doctor pumped lethal drugs into her body.
A female doctor has been formally reprimanded for performing the act of euthanasia because the patient was suffering from dementia and could not properly consent.
When the woman was first diagnosed with dementia four years ago she had indicated that she was willing to end her life by euthanasia “but not now”.
Her nursing home decided the moment had arrived when her condition deteriorated and she began to wander the wards at night and behave aggressively.
