The Dutch government is to propose legislation that would broaden access to assisted suicide to those who are not ill but have a ‘completed life’. In a letter to parliament, the country’s Ministers for health and justice stated that people who “have a well-considered opinion that their life is complete, must, under strict and careful criteria, be allowed to finish that life in a manner dignified for them”. Having become the first country to legalise assisted suicide, the Netherlands has witnessed a steady expansion of those the measure was first intended for, those with unbearable suffering due to a terminal illness, to those with mental illness and dementia. Since its introduction, numbers dying by assisted suicide have risen by double digits annually. Assisted dying accounted for 5,516 deaths in the Netherlands in 2015, or 3.9 percent of all deaths nationwide.