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Dutch court OKs assisted suicide in advanced dementia cases

by Associated Press
| April 21, 2020 6:27 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands' highest court ruled Tuesday that doctors can carry out medically assisted suicide in patients with advanced dementia if the patient has earlier made a written directive.

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