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Politician Commits Euthanasia suicide - His Wife Follows as a Supplement

Dries van Agt, a former Dutch prime minister (1977-1982), committed suicide by euthanasia on 5 February, together with his wife Eugenie, both aged 93.

Their deaths reflect a growing trend in the Netherlands of "duo suicides by euthanasia" involving couples.

The Netherlands hypocritically legalised euthanasia in 2002 for patients with six conditions, including 'unbearable suffering', no prospect of relief and a long-standing, independent wish to die.

But Van Agt's wife didn't suffer from any specific illness, unlike her husband, who never fully recovered from a brain haemorrhage in 2019. So she had to die because he was tired of life, a modern European version of the Sati ceremony in India.

Both were baptised and brought up as Catholics. Van Agt's political career was in the country's "Catholic" party. He had "conservative" roots and campaigned for many anti-Catholic causes.

After his term as prime minister, he served as European Union ambassador to Japan and the United States.

Picture: Dries van Agt en zijn eega Eugenie van Agt-Krekelberg (1981) © wikicommons, CC BY-SA, #newsQvckjjgwud

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Everyday for Life Canada

Mar 18

The culture of death just begets more deaths. What a terrible example to leave your children and the citizenry. Life is the only choice.

P. O'B

Feb 15

Like telling the Devil, "Here I come!"

GTVisrockin

Feb 15

The culture of death.

English Catholic

Feb 15

How tragic. The UK euthanasia lobby has recently received a boost, because TV presenter Esther Rantzen has been diagnosed with lung cancer and wants the opportunity to be euthanised in the UK, so because she is dying, she wants to put everyone else on the slippery slope to state-sanctioned murder. She ran a campaign in conjunction with the Daily Express and got over 100,000 signatures, so it may be debated in Parliament. 100,000 people back Esther Rantzen's assisted dying petition They need to see what's happening in Canada: Canada has revealed the horror of assisted dying. Also, as @giveusthisday has pointed out: "Here in Canada, euthanasia is big, but people don't realize one major reason for the big push is the harvesting of organs. It would be very important, with the publishing of your article to make people aware of that lucrative business."