AP Exclusive: Doctors clash over euthanasia for mentally ill
By maria cheng, ap medical writer
GHENT, Belgium — Oct 26, 2017, 6:40 AM ET
After struggling with mental illness for years, Cornelia Geerts was so desperate to die that she asked her psychiatrist to kill her.
Her sister worried that Geerts' judgment was compromised. The 59-year-old was taking more than 20 pills a day, including antidepressants, an opioid, a tranquilizer, and two medicines often used to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
But about a year later, on October 7, 2014, Geerts received a lethal dose of drugs from her doctor.
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