Dutch paediatricians: give terminally ill children under 12 the right to die

Dutch Paediatric Association says country should follow Belgium in changing law on euthanasia and scrapping age limit for children in unbearable suffering Terminally ill children in unbearable suffering should be given the right to die, the Dutch Paediatric Association has said, calling for the current age limit of 12 years old to be scrapped. Eduard Verhagen, a paediatrics professor at Groningen University, who is on the organisation's ethics commission, said: "We feel that an arbitrary age lim...