A 53-year-old man, who threw his mother off of a balcony to her death because she was suffering from Alzheimers disease was cleared of murder by a judge who said he “acted out of love” – a decision that is raising troubling new ethical questions.
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For the first time ever, prosecutors in the Netherlands are launching a criminal investigation into a “possible punishable case of euthanasia” after a woman suffering from dementia was forcibly held down by family while a doctor administered a lethal dose of drugs.
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