Drion's pill

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Drion's pill is a fictitious suicide pill. It was proposed by Huib Drion, a former Dutch Supreme Court judge and professor of civil law. He argued that people aged 75 or over, living alone, should have the choice of being provided by a doctor with the means to end their lives at a time and in a manner that was acceptable to them. It would be distributed to those who might need it - naturally, with great wisdom and great care and under strict safeguards.

So far this has been only discussed as a theoretical proposition. No such pill exists in the Netherlands.