Editing Assisted suicide (section)

===Netherlands===
{{Main|Euthanasia in the Netherlands}}
In 2002, the Netherlands became the first country in the world to formally legalise voluntary euthanasia.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/79%286%29580.pdf|title=Netherlands, first country to legalize euthanasia|date=2001|work=[[World Health Organization]]|access-date=4 October 2020|archive-date=12 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211012062510/https://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/79(6)580.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Physician-assisted suicide is legal under the same conditions as voluntary euthanasia. Physician-assisted suicide became allowed under the act approved in 2001 which became effective in 2002 and states the specific procedures and requirements needed in order to provide such assistance. Assisted suicide in the Netherlands follows a medical model which means that only doctors of patients who are suffering "unbearably without hope"<ref>{{cite web |title=Euthanasia is legalised in Netherlands |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/euthanasia-is-legalised-in-netherlands-5364802.html |website=The Independent |date=11 April 2001 |access-date=2 November 2018 |archive-date=12 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312183311/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/euthanasia-is-legalised-in-netherlands-5364802.html |url-status=live }}</ref> are allowed to grant a request for an assisted suicide. The Netherlands allows people over the age of 12 to pursue an assisted suicide when deemed necessary.