But the prosecutor will not look at every single case anymore. A medical board will judge if the doctor has done right or wrong. We think it's all going much too far. What we should have been considering is whether to legalise or not. We of course are not in favour.
Doctors have to come forward with euthanasia.
I don't think doctors are happy with this new law either. The recent debate on euthanasia has been complicated by the case of politician Ed ward Brongersma - who had asked his doctor to end his life although he was not sick and was not in pain. He believed his life simply wasn't worth living anymore. A doctor did help him end his life and a court later ruled the doctor had acted with caution and acquitted him. The opponents of the new euthanasia law saw this case as setting a dangerous new precedent.