 In the case of couples wanting to die together, Dr Boer is concerned about the wider impact of these cases, especially after one of the Netherlands' former prime ministers chose to die together with his wife earlier this year. Both 93 years old, their deaths make global headlines. There's influence from both partners on each other, but what's more is that there's also a societal influence, I think, in the sense that now in the past year that we have seen dozens of cases of duo-euthanasia,