NVVE

Netherlands was the first country which legalized euthanasia in 2001.

NVVE (Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Een Vrijwilling Levenseinde) is NGO in Netherlands. This was founded in Friesland, a district in the north of the Netherlands, in 1973, and one of the biggest NGO in Netherlands. One of the important NVVE’s tasks is to broaden the limit of acceptable euthanasia. The following are aims of NVVE.

Aims of the NVVE:
a. The advancement of an as broad as possible use and social acceptance of the existing legal possibilities towards a free choice for the ending of life.
b. The advancement of the social acceptance and the legal regulation of a free choice for ending of life in situations which are not within the scope of the existing legal possibilities.
c. Striving towards the recognition of a free choice for the ending of life and assistance with it as a human right.


References: NVVE. 27 Jun 2007
< http://www.nvve.nl/nvve2/pagina.asp?pagkey=72177>