Psychiatric patients 'suffering' from long waiting times for euthanasia

Psychiatric patients are suffering needlessly and taking their own lives because of the long waiting times to be assessed for euthanasia. Specialist clinic Expertisecentrum Euthanasie, formerly known as the Levenseindekliniek, said people with psychiatric illnesses had to wait for two years on average to have their request to die assessed. Political party GroenLinks has called for the centre to be given €750,000 in funding to help it cut its waiting list. ‘It’s not right that if people are suffering unbearably...