Belgian Woman Dead After Fighting for Assisted Suicide

According to her doctors, Van Esbeen did not qualify for euthanasia under a 2002 law which authorizes doctors to help patients die if they are suffering from a "serious terminal illness" and "constant and unbearable pain that cannot be relieved." Van Esbeen ended her hunger strike on March 24 and made a written euthanasia request which was accepted by a different doctor who helped her die on Wednesday around noon, her family said. Belgium Assisted Suicide Fighter