Former Dutch prime minister and his wife euthanize themselves together. Dries and Eugénie van Agt, both 93, were ill and chose to die together, as allowed by Dutch law.
Euthanasia and assisted suicide have been legal in the Netherlands since 2002. But it was only in a count of all procedures in 2020 that the first “couple euthanasias” were counted, with 26 people. Since then, their number has increased each year: 32 the following year, 58 in 2022.