Theo Boer

Theo Boer is a member of the Dutch Health Council, advising the government on health care policy and ethics.

Britain must learn from the Netherlands’s mistakes on assisted dying

As a former member of a euthanasia review board in the Netherlands, I have closely followed the debate surrounding Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill. In 2001, and with 15 years of experience with makeshift regulations behind us, the Netherlands became the first country to introduce a euthanasia law. In support of this law, I worked