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Is Belgium making it too easy for healthy people to die?

John LaurensonOctober 2, 2014

Euthanasia is perhaps the great ethical debate of the moment here in Europe. Belgium de-criminalized it 12 years ago and this year extended 'the right-to-die' to terminally ill or seriously disabled children. Critics say a law to prevent prosecution of doctors who cut short their patients’ agony is now being used to end people's lives who are more weary or lonely than ill. John Laurenson reports.

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