Euthanasia in Belgium

Belgium is embroiled in a huge controversy after it recently emerged that a 23-year-old survivor of the 2016 Brussels airport bombing had chosen to end her life this past May under the country’s “liberal” euthanasia law that allows one, regardless of age or signs of illness, to choose death by physician-assisted suicide. Léopold Vanbellingen, a research fellow at the European Institute of Bioethics, joins The World’s Marco Werman to explain the complexities of Belgium’s euthanasia law.