Charles Lane
Non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and journalist; author of the Atlantic article 'When Mentally Ill Teenagers Ask to Be Put to Death', providing reporting and analysis on Dutch psychiatric euthanasia.
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Apr 8, 2026 • 46min
Should mentally ill people have the right to die?
Charles Lane, non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and journalist, examines Dutch psychiatric euthanasia, including cases involving teens. He explains Dutch cultural support for euthanasia, legal criteria that allow physician-administered death, and the controversies around consent, adolescent brain development, rising psychiatric cases, and professional and societal consequences.
