Ruling on the wish to die: the plaintiff has been dead since April 2021

Created: 02/23/2022, 05:37

A figure of the blind Justitia.

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In the dispute over narcotics for suicide, the plaintiff's attorney declared one of three cases before the Higher Administrative Court of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to be settled.

This was announced by the court in Münster when asked by the German Press Agency.

However, the procedure is not yet over, as the Higher Administrative Court has doubts about the formal effectiveness of the lawyer's response.

Münster – Shortly after the oral hearing, the court informed the lawyer about an obituary from the plaintiff from Baden-Württemberg.

Accordingly, the woman should have been dead since April 2021.

At the hearing on February 2, attorney Robert Roßbruch said when asked by the court that the plaintiff was dying.

At the beginning of February, the Higher Administrative Court dismissed the lawsuit of three seriously ill patients who wished to die.

According to the verdict, the plaintiffs are not entitled to a deadly drug under the Narcotics Act.

Because of the fundamental importance, the OVG allowed an appeal to the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig.

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A 77-year-old with cancer from the district of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony and a patient with multiple sclerosis from Rhineland-Palatinate also complained.

The 51-year-old was in a wheelchair alongside a companion in the courtroom.

Roßbruch, President of the German Society for Human Dying, left an inquiry from the German Press Agency about his testimony at the hearing about the 68-year-old from the Schwäbisch-Hall district unanswered.

In several interviews published in early February, Roßbruch commented on the woman's wish to die.

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