Netherlands euthanasia for the under 30’s- 75% autistic people and 74% women.

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Koenraadt has highlighted the fact that the euthanasia program in the Netherlands has resulted in the majority of people under 30 who use the service are autistic people (75%) and women (74%).
It reminded me of the trans population in which young women and autistic people are more likely to transition and be processed through incompetent and blindly ideological healthcare pathways.
I am in favour of euthanasia for older, terminally ill people but find it very troubling when people under 30 are ‘treated’ this way. If all was well there would be no disparity in patient groups.

Johannes koenraadt x post

Yup. Predictable

Look at the thread recently about that Spanish woman

People falling over themselves to portray her as competent and coherant despite years of MH issues, layers of trauma, and on top of that I thought that it was fairly likely she was ND, but dont have proof of that.

Someone on that thread put up the stats for Canada as well, frightening, a country I thought was sensible.

I think it is relevant to look at the actual numbers here as well as the %.

It’s a small number - 30 people under 30 in 2024. For 2025 I can only find the data on under 25s, which is 7 people dying from euthanasia (under 25s in 2024 was 13 out of the 30 people under 30 yrs).

That’s not me saying “there’s no problem here”. But the absolute numbers are relevant when they’re this small. For example, the euthanasia figures for under 25s almost halved from 2024 to 2025, which sounds significant, and you could easily say “numbers dropped by 46%, under 25s aren’t choosing euthanasia anymore” but I don’t think a drop from 13 to 7 could be used as meaningful evidence of anything.

This is the trouble with the slippery slope this type of law creates.

I very much doubt that the Dutch explicitly agreed to a law that made suicide extremely accessible to children and distressed young people up front.

The extension in eligible groups will have come gradually because once you say it is ok for the state to kill people the arguments to exclude certain groups becomes weaker.

The proponents of state enabled suicide in this country have already significantly watered down whatever ‘safeguards’ there were in the legislation and it hasn’t even passed yet. I’m almost waiting for the BBC propaganda machine to lead with a jolly piece celebrating the first ‘client’ with sympathetic voice over about how lovely and kind it all is. If I remember rightly Lord Falconer has already confirmed that poverty could make you eligible (correct me if I’m wrong, I can’t face listening to the debates again)

A society prepared to kill its children and vulnerable people rather than treasure and encourage them to exercise their right to life is utterly lost and it makes me sad to think that this highlights the concept of the banality of evil.

I think that the risk is that over time it becomes normalised.
There were very few trans females before 2010 but during that time a medical pathway was created, the numbers exploded.

I’ve just seen a post on X by a man from Canada whose wife had stage 4 ovarian cancer, was told there was no treatment, Canadian hospital offered assisted dying. They went to the US and she had surgery and chemo and after a few relapses is now fine. I think he said she was 35 and they’d written her off.

State assisted dying creates a conflict of interest. The state is responsible for offering medical care to save lives. This is sometimes expensive. If the state wants to save money, they can reduce the medical options available and save money by offering MAID.

I would hazard a guess that someone in government has drawn up a spreadsheet which details how assisted dying will save the state £x every year.

They may even have broken it down further.
Treatment costs saved.
Benefits saved.
Pensions saved.
Inheritance tax gained.

I wonder if a FOI was done on this for the assisted dying bill here in the U.K.?

I would like to see a full breakdown of statistics from countries which have assisted dying. . Sex, Ethnicity, Religion, Disability, Age, Marital status and Income/employment status.

I will never get over the disabled woman in Canada who only needed a suitable single-storey home that was accessible for her wheelchair. No authorities seemed to care about helping her to obtain suitable housing; so after enough people went on at her that maybe death would be easier and more straightforward, she finally took them up on it and she is now dead. In Canada: supposedly a rich, democratic, liberal country.