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End-of-life doctor recounts 20 years of euthanasia law in Belgium

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'Euthanasia is a treatment like any other, the difference is that it's a final treatment,' argues Marc Decroly, a doctor who has helped more than a hundred patients end their lives. Decroly, a 58-year-old general practitioner, is one of several doctors in Belgium who help people end their lives at home under a right-to-die law the country adopted 20 years ago, on May 28, 2002. At the time, Belgium was only the second country in the world to decriminalise euthanasia, two months after its neighbour the Netherlands. In the ensuing two decades, the procedure -- once furiously contested -- has become largely accepted. An anti-euthanasia protest held in Brussels a month ago rallied only around 350 people. Decroly said that 'no one can oppose the wish of the patient' if the law's conditions are met. Only those with an incurable illness and experiencing constant and intolerable physical or mental suffering that cannot be alleviated qualified. Their clear request has to be expressly repeated, fully thought through and not subject to any outside pressure. Decroly said he only went ahead with it if a second doctor endorsed it. 'Euthanasia is never easy. But it's the end point of a process undertaken with the patient and their family. It's a way to bring closure, with relief,' said the doctor, who practises in Brussels' well-heeled district of Uccle. In 2021, Belgium recorded 2,700 euthanasia cases, representing 2.4 percent of total deaths. Most were carried out for patients aged between 60 and 89, and for eight out of 10 of them death was prognosed to be just around the corner, according to government authorities. Very good law More than half of the procedures were carried out in the patient's home. The moment 'is extremely rich, on a human level', Decroly said, with a slight introspective smile.  'We see all sorts of emotions. They make us grow, they make us, they move us forward. We become a little better in ourselves. At least I hope so.' But, he added, 'more than three eut

"Euthanasia is a treatment like any other, the difference is that it's a final treatment," argues Marc Decroly, a doctor who has helped more than a hundred patients end their lives.

"We see all sorts of emotions. They make us grow, they make us, they move us forward. We become a little better in ourselves. At least I hope so."As well as his job as a family doctor, Decroly serves in a hospital emergency room. "If a doctor says no, the process doesn't stop there. They can be transferred to other people who might see their situation differently," he said.

 

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