Linacre Centre on "Reporting"

In its submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Assisted Dying Bill, the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics noted:

"It is often said that euthanasia will be better controlled where it can be freely reported. In fact the Dutch experience shows widespread underreporting, in addition to widespread disregard of other guidelines. About half the cases of 'euthanasia' and 'assisted suicide' revealed by the 2001 survey went unreported, as did 99% of cases of termination of life without the patient's request, 100% of cases of intentional lethal overdose of painkillers (whether requested or unrequested), and a huge majority of cases where the patient killed was a child."