Jutte van der Werff Ten Bosch has already had the talk with her 10-year-old son. Several times, in fact. No, not the sex talk. The euthanasia talk. ''Even if he said, 'I want to die', I'd support him,'' she explained. ''I didn't put my children in the world for me. It's their life and their death. The best parents are the ones who let their children go.'' Professor van der Werff Ten Bosch's dinner-table conversations with her son and her three other children are far from hypothetical: They live in Belgium, where a law allowing child euthanasia is on track to be passed early next year. The law, which follows a 2002 law making euthanasia legal for consenting adults, will allow terminally ill...
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