Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt and his wife Eugénie end their lives. The couple, who had been together for 70 years, had been suffering from poor health.
Assisted suicide has been legal since 2002 in the Netherlands. Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he was saddened by the death of the man he called his “practicing great-great-grandfather’ The couple's funerals were organized in family privacy, without further details of their deaths being communicated.