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Former Dutch Prime Minister and Wife Die in Double Euthanasia

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Dries and Eugenie van Agt/ Image:The Telegraph

Former Dutch prime minister Dries van Agt and his wife, Eugenie, both 93, died last week in a double euthanasia.

They were buried together on Thursday.

The Rights Forum, a human rights charity he founded, said on Friday, “He died hand in hand with his beloved wife Eugenie van Agt-Krekelberg, the support and anchor with whom he was together for more than 70 years and whom he always continued to refer to as ‘my girl’.”

The Telegraph reports:

The former Christian Democrat adopted increasingly Left-wing views later in life, opposing his party’s electoral agreement with Gert Wilders’ PVV in 2010.

Van Agt was especially vocal on the Israel-Palestine conflict,

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