On Monday April 2, 2012, it was exactly 10 years ago that the Dutch where the first in the world to pass a law that legalised euthanasia. On this historic day the Russian private TV channel Ren TV broadcasts a background reportage about the law, and how it works in practice.
While in Russia euthanasia is very controversial and illegal, the Netherlands has ten years of experience with ending life officially.
The director of the Association of Voluntary Euthanasia (NVVE) and ex-family doctor explains how the ending life procedure works and according to what rules euthanasia can be executed in the Netherlands. The director also explains why the Netherlands has an End Life clinic and mobile euthanasia teams, for patients that want their life to be ended but that are not helped by their family doctor.
A daughter of a man that got euthanasia explains why the legalisation is so important, and how peaceful her terminally ill father died. The chairman of a pro-life patients association explains why they have the pro-life declaration, as a reaction of the euthanasia declaration of the NVVE.
For this reportage Featurez gave advice, did the research, set-up and planning of the filming, booked a rental car, did the driving, accompanied the filming and did translations.