Professor Theo Boer:

I want to make one comment about the argument that has occurred recently, although not traditionally, in the Netherlands, which is that there is no such thing as a natural death. The “physicians” have put us in the highest tree and now they forbid us to jump down. That is wrong. The single most important reason why we have a life expectancy of 80 years is not physicians; it is hygiene, good nutrition and clean water. At the end of our lives, when we get into the 70s and 80s and the physicians start prolonging our life, it is my honest opinion that we should resist that medical imperative and re-accept or re-establish some sense of natural death, instead of saying there is no such thing as a natural death so let us make no problem of an unnatural death. I would love to speak to Mr. Luley about it but that is not for this moment.