The Euthanasia Expertise Center granted 1,240 requests for euthanasia last year, 11 percent more than in 2021.

The number of requests increased by 13 percent, from 3,689 in 2021 to 4,159 in 2022.

The Center helps people whose own doctor won’t honour their request for euthanasia, for example, because they find the request too complicated.

Only about a third of the patients who went to the Center last year were killed via euthanasia.

Around a fifth of the euthanasia requests the Center received last year came from patients with ‘psychological suffering’. Of those 781 requests, the center granted 90.

The number of euthanasia requests increases nationwide by almost 10 percent per year. The number of times doctors throughout the Netherlands granted euthanasia last year will be announced next month. In 2021 it was 7,666 times.