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Allow Me To Die: Euthanasia in Belgium
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Allow Me To Die: Euthanasia in Belgium

2015 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Belgium's euthanasia law goes further than almost anywhere else, allowing people to end their lives not just for terminal illness but for unbearable psychological suffering. This Dateline special gets rare access to the doctors, patients, and families navigating that law, following individuals who are physically healthy but seeking approval to die because of depression or chronic mental anguish. Cameras sit in on consultations where doctors weigh a request against the legal criteria, and relatives describe what it means to support, or oppose, a loved one's decision to schedule their own death. The film lays out how the Belgian system works in practice, who qualifies, who signs off, and what safeguards exist, while letting both supporters and skeptics of the law speak for themselves. It is less interested in delivering a verdict than in showing the mechanics and human stakes of a policy most other countries have not attempted, leaving the harder question, whether suffering alone should be enough, for the viewer to sit with.