MissAbyss
"I gazed for too long.."
- Jul 20, 2025
- 23
Sometimes I read posts over here regarding euthanasia and/or assisted suicide which they provide in my country (Netherlands) about how wonderful and humane it is, but in reality?
Official statistics from 2024:
Of the total of 9,958 euthanasia cases in 2024, (5.8%) fell within the group with psychological complaints, a total of 578 cases.
In 219 (2.2%) cases of euthanasia were granted on basis of psychological complaints.
So less than half cases gets granted eventually.
It is a process in which they impose impossible demands. You need to suffer from (several) servere (officially diagnosed) personality disorder(s).
They will force you to do all kinds of cognitive behavioral therapies, trauma therapies and as a last resort electroconvulsive therapy even if it is not relevant at all. You need to have taken many different prescribed psychiatric drugs, preferable maximum doses. You have to exhausted all treatment options for mental suffering and have no prospect of improvement in the future. This all needs to be built up in a long history of files.
Then you have to ask your general practitioner and/or psychiatrists if they approve and are willing to perform, but mostly they don't do that for ethical/religious reasons. If one or both agree, it will be the shortest route. Then you only have to find another independent doctor for a second opinion.
After approval, the date can be set. This process can happen quickly, weeks to months until it is arranged.
But what if they don't approve?
Your only option then is to register with an independent association called NVVE.
They work with independent doctors and psychiatrists. This whole process takes an average of 3 years due to long waiting list and a small number of performing doctors and psychiatrists.
If you are in the middle or near the end of the process, they still can decide not to approve.
This whole process is experienced by many people as nerve-wracking and lonely and is often considered inhumane.
Reality isn't always so romantic..
Thank you for reading
Official statistics from 2024:
Of the total of 9,958 euthanasia cases in 2024, (5.8%) fell within the group with psychological complaints, a total of 578 cases.
In 219 (2.2%) cases of euthanasia were granted on basis of psychological complaints.
So less than half cases gets granted eventually.
It is a process in which they impose impossible demands. You need to suffer from (several) servere (officially diagnosed) personality disorder(s).
They will force you to do all kinds of cognitive behavioral therapies, trauma therapies and as a last resort electroconvulsive therapy even if it is not relevant at all. You need to have taken many different prescribed psychiatric drugs, preferable maximum doses. You have to exhausted all treatment options for mental suffering and have no prospect of improvement in the future. This all needs to be built up in a long history of files.
Then you have to ask your general practitioner and/or psychiatrists if they approve and are willing to perform, but mostly they don't do that for ethical/religious reasons. If one or both agree, it will be the shortest route. Then you only have to find another independent doctor for a second opinion.
After approval, the date can be set. This process can happen quickly, weeks to months until it is arranged.
But what if they don't approve?
Your only option then is to register with an independent association called NVVE.
They work with independent doctors and psychiatrists. This whole process takes an average of 3 years due to long waiting list and a small number of performing doctors and psychiatrists.
If you are in the middle or near the end of the process, they still can decide not to approve.
This whole process is experienced by many people as nerve-wracking and lonely and is often considered inhumane.
Reality isn't always so romantic..
Thank you for reading
