AP Exclusive: Doctors clash over euthanasia for mentally ill
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October 26, 2017
GHENT, Belgium (AP) — After struggling with mental illness for years, Cornelia Geerts was so desperate to die that she asked her psychiatrist to kill her.
Her sister worried that her judgment was compromised. The 59-year-old was taking more than 20 pills every day, including antidepressants, an opioid, a tranquilizer, and two medicines often used to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
But about a year later, on October 7, 2014, her doctor administered a lethal dose of drugs — a legal procedure in Belgium, which has among the world's most permissive euthanasia laws.
"I know it was Corneli...
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