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2026-03-14
As the West lunges toward propagating a right to be made dead, the deleterious societal impacts of being legally "MAIDed" (killed by "medical assistance in dying") are becoming increasingly clear. A recent professional analysis published in the Psychiatric Times illustrates the lethal influence on mentally ill suicidal people -- including youth -- in the Netherlands.
Article: Euthanasia for young people and psychiatric reasons in the Netherlands (Read).
From "Psychiatric Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Young People, Procedural Medicine, and the Limits of Psychiatry" (citations omitted):
Requests for euthanasia on psychiatric grounds have risen sharply, with a disproportionate increase among young adults and, more recently, minors. The Dutch model, once presented internationally as careful and balanced, is now attracting attention for a different reason: growing uncertainty about whether psychiatry has crossed a boundary it cannot coherently justify.
This increase has had a deleterious impact on suicidal youth:
The numerical trend among youth underscores why concern has intensified. For many years, psychiatric euthanasia in the Netherlands was virtually nonexistent. Between 2002 and 2010, only 1 or 2 cases per year were reported across all age groups. This changed markedly after 2011. According to data published by the Regional Euthanasia Review Committees, the number of psychiatric euthanasia cases increased from 2 in 2011 to 138 in 2023, followed by a further sharp rise to 219 cases in 2024, representing an increase of roughly 60% in a single year.
When euthanasia deaths are considered alongside suicides, assisted dying now accounts for a growing proportion of premature deaths among young adults, particularly young women, raising serious concerns about contagion effects, shifting cultural norms, and the population-level consequences of introducing medicalized death into the care landscape for youth with mental suffering.
The phenomenon of "doctor shopping" (as I call it) has long been a problem with legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide. The problem also exists in the Netherlands.
Mental Illness is not Terminal. by Kelsi Sheren
Canada will soon surpass 100,000 euthanasia deaths. by Alex Schadenberg