Euthanasia at mass time, in the same place and hand in hand: couples who decide to die together, a growing phenomenon. There are dozens of couples a year, including former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt and his wife, both 93 years old.
Euthanasia has been legal in the Netherlands since 2002, but it is authorized under very strict conditions. The requirements require that the decision be "voluntary and well thought out", in the face of "unbearable and desperate suffering", and that "there be no reasonable alternative"