Amsterdam, Netherlands, Feb 2, 2017 / 08:02 am
A Dutch doctor who drugged an elderly woman and had her restrained as she fought lethal injection has been cleared by a review panel for "acting in good faith."
The woman, in her 80s, had dementia and had been living in a nursing home and exhibited "fear and anger" at times, and would be found wandering around the building, according to case documents.
She had reportedly expressed a desire for euthanasia when "the time was right" at an earlier date, but had not done so recently.
The senior doctor at the the nursing home determined that the woman's condition meant that the time was right, and put a sleep-inducing drug into the woman's coffee in order to administer the lethal injection without consulting the woman.