[danielf]

Thanks for that. I tried to see if I could find any Dutch sources to that case, but I can find very little about that case.

However, what I can say is that it's certainly not the case that depressed people are routinely put down. One thing I did find is that in Belgium, in 2004 and 2005 combined, 4 people with chronic depression requested and were granted Euthanasia (as far as I can tell there were a total of 349 cases of Euthanasia in Belgium in 2004).

Personally, I'm not too sure what to think of these cases (though I'm sure doctors will not read lightly here). I can see the argument that physical and mental suffering can be indistinguishable, but it seems difficult to me to determine to what extent a depression will not improve.

Either way, it's certainly not the case that many people receive Euthanasia for depression, so it appears to me that allowing Euthanasia certainly isn't the 'thin end of the wedge' where depressed people are concerned.