Every step is wrapped in safeguards: medical proof that no humane alternative remains, a specialized review committee of doctors, a lawyer, an ethicist, and finally the scrutiny of prosecutors. Supporters insist this is the last, hardest act of love. Opponents fear a line has been crossed that can never be uncrossed. Between those two visions stands a silent child, known only to their family, whose short life now defines one of the most harrowing moral frontiers of our time.
First child under 12 dies by euthanasia after Netherlands expands assisted-dying law
