If doctors find it too difficult to assess ‘unbearable suffering’ they referred the person to an ‘end of life’ clinic. If the second doctor did not agree it was referred to a third doctor. This becomes ‘doctor shopping’.
A committee cannot assess if someone’s suffering is ‘unbearable’.
Doctors have to be able to imagine a person’s suffering. But autistic pain is difficult to assess and so doctors have to take the autistic person’s word for it. The suffering of an autistic person is different from that of a non-autistic person.
In quite a few instances there was no physical illness that was terminal. One person found it too difficult to eat more than three meals a day – required because of their condition.
The Dutch ‘openness’ is good and good that there is scrutiny through the reports being made available online. There was a change in the culture and unspoken pressure to accept this way of dying. But there is no 6 month limitation and the law may be being expanded too much. The interpretation of the law expanded while the law itself was unchanged,
Disabled people cannot be excluded from the law on account of their disability because that would be discrimination. The disabled have the same rights as everyone.