Two children, aged nine and 11, have become the world’s youngest to be euthanized, according to a report. The unnamed minors were administered lethal injections in Belgium, which has the world’s only law allowing terminally ill children in “unbearable suffering” to choose to die. Their deaths, which occurred in 2016 or 2017, were revealed in a report from the CFCEE; the commission that regulates
euthanasia in Belgium, and their ages were confirmed by a Belgian official. It confirmed that Belgian doctors had given lethal injections to three children over the two-year period, including to a 17-year-old who was suffering from muscular dystrophy. The nine-year-old, who had a brain tumour, and the 11-year-old, who was suffering from cystic fibrosis, were the first children under 12 to be euthanised anywhere, a member of the CFCEE told The Washington Post. READ MORE
