An unidentified man suffering from Alzheimer's disease and who refused to eat sleeps peacefully the day before passing away in a nursing home in the Netherlands. Photo: Reuters An unidentified man suffering from Alzheimer's disease and who refused to eat sleeps peacefully the day before passing away in a nursing home in the Netherlands. Photo: Reuters
An unidentified man suffering from Alzheimer's disease and who refused to eat sleeps peacefully the day before passing away in a nursing home in the Netherlands. Photo: Reuters
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Euthanasia is used in 4.5 per cent of all deaths in the Netherlands, 15 years after legalisation

Some 92 per cent of euthanasia cases involved seriously ill patients - but the number who were not terminally ill has been growing

Associated Press
Associated Press

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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An unidentified man suffering from Alzheimer's disease and who refused to eat sleeps peacefully the day before passing away in a nursing home in the Netherlands. Photo: Reuters An unidentified man suffering from Alzheimer's disease and who refused to eat sleeps peacefully the day before passing away in a nursing home in the Netherlands. Photo: Reuters
An unidentified man suffering from Alzheimer's disease and who refused to eat sleeps peacefully the day before passing away in a nursing home in the Netherlands. Photo: Reuters
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