No. Actually, I would not agree with that, because while, of course, 3% sounds like a small number, it's a relative number. In fact, there's been a growth of about 500% over five years in the number of young people getting MAID. That may still be 3% in a pool that is ever-increasing.
What happens in the Netherlands.... To clarify, we have 90,000 people, mostly young girls, presenting at the first aid departments of hospitals with non-lethal suicide attempts, and it is this pool that is more and more drawn to formulating their suffering in terms of a euthanasia request. Euthanasia requests are actually increasing to the GP, in the psychiatric practice and with the school counsellor, so we've seem an enormous increase in requests.
The 3% may be 3%, but there's a background of an increasing number of requests.
