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EPISODE · Apr 8, 2026 · 46 MIN

Should mentally ill people have the right to die?

from Think from KERA · host KERA

Dutch teens with mental illness can choose to end their lives though euthanasia. Charles Lane, nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how the Netherlands came to the decision to grant assisted suicide to teenagers with parental approval, what makes a mental illness diagnosis so controversial for this method of dying and to discuss a doctor who says granting these requests is the moral option. His article “When Mentally Ill Teenagers Ask to Be Put to Death” was published in The Atlantic. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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