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“Psychiatric Euthanasia” in the Netherlands – Wesley Smith, 3/9/26 (0681)

Issues, Etc.

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Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In the Netherlands, it's being called psychiatric euthanasia.

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Remember when people were saying, well, we need to have euthanasia for a very limited

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set of circumstances. Maybe someone is terminally ill and will die within months anyway. If they

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want euthanasia, what's the big deal? The argument went, well, now you really don't even have to be

1:41.7

mentally fit to get euthanasia in some parts of the world.

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Greetings and welcome to Issues etc. live on this Monday afternoon, March the 9th.

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I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. We're going to talk about euthanasia for the mentally ill in the Netherlands with Wesley Smith of the Discovery Institute Center on Human Exceptionalism.

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We'll spend some time with Dr. John Bombarrow,

2:01.7

looking forward to Lytari, the fourth Sunday in Lent,

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