If doctors find it too difficult to assess \u2018unbearable suffering\u2019 they referred the person to an \u2018end of life\u2019 clinic. If the second doctor did not agree it was referred to a third doctor. This becomes \u2018doctor shopping\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A committee cannot assess if someone\u2019s suffering is \u2018unbearable\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Doctors have to be able to imagine a person\u2019s suffering. But autistic pain is difficult to assess and so doctors have to take the autistic person\u2019s word for it. The suffering of an autistic person is different from that of a non-autistic person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 \u2013 required because of their condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Dutch \u2018openness\u2019 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<\/strong> 6 month limitation and the law may be being expanded too much. The interpretation of the law expanded while the law itself was unchanged,<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n