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Psychiatrist Paulan St\u00e4rcke of the Euthanasia Expertise Center in the Netherlands recently complained of the long wait times for mentally ill patients to be killed. In an interview with Dutch newspaper Trouw<\/a>, St\u00e4rcke said the waiting period for euthanasia for psychiatric patients is currently two years, due to a lack of doctors willing to make referrals for their patients to die.<\/p>\n

Last year, the waiting period for euthanasia due to mental illness was one year, but the wait time has grown as requests have seemingly increased. “[O]ur waiting list is mainly a signal that regular mental health care still does not often seriously respond to a request for euthanasia,” St\u00e4rcke told Trouwe. “We are referred to too often.” Psychiatrists within the Euthanasia Expertise Center, formerly the End of Life Clinic, euthanized 60 patients last year, while doctors not affiliated with the center euthanized six.<\/p>\n

For St\u00e4rcke, who believes doctors outside of the center should be willing to do the job themselves, this presents a problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to start from scratch with establishing a relationship,” she said. “The own practitioner already has that relationship.” And further complicating issues is that, according to St\u00e4rcke, psychiatrists outside of the center find it too “complex” to assess euthanasia for mentally ill patients. Seven psychiatrists currently work for the center, but though St\u00e4rcke says more are needed, Trouw reported that\u00a0efforts to recruit more doctors to work for the center so far have been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Euthanasia expert in the Netherlands expects deaths to double in a decade<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was recently revealed that euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands have been steadily rising, with Steven Pleiter, chairman of the Euthanasia Expertise Center, predicting<\/a> that these deaths will double in the next decade. As it currently stands, a quarter of all deaths<\/a> are induced. Euthanasia for mental illness is likewise on the rise, with one mental health patient killed each week<\/a>. People have been euthanized for things like autism<\/a>, addiction<\/a>, depression<\/a>, and for suffering from\u00a0sexual abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a study from several years ago found that 1 in 3 Dutch doctors<\/a> were willing to euthanize someone solely due to mental illness. As horrifying as that statistic is, the silver lining \u2014 as evidenced by the Euthanasia Expertise Center’s difficulty in hiring more psychiatrists \u2014 is that the majority of doctors are not<\/em> willing to euthanize patients, even if they otherwise support euthanasia. And with a two-year wait, one can only hope that during the delay, despite St\u00e4rcke’s pleas for more euthanasia, some of these patients will get the help they need and realize their lives are still worth living.<\/p>\n

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