In February six specialised Dutch mobile teams, each with a doctor, started to carry out euthanasia at the home of patients whose own family doctor refuses to help.
As all other patients, the patients helped by the mobile teams need to face a future of ‘unbearable, interminable suffering’ and both the patient and the doctor – who have to obtain a second opinion – before euthanasia is carried out, must agree there is no cure.
The background reportage program Weltspiegel from the German public TV channel ARD wants research to be done.