About Jan Remmelink
Lived 1922 – 2003 (aged 81). Jan Remmelink was a Dutch jurist, university teacher and lawyer.
Professor Jan Remmelink (27 April 1922, Zelhem, Gelderland – 15 May 2003, Groningen) was Attorney General of the High Council of the Netherlands from 1968 to 1989. In 1979 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He headed the Dutch government committee on euthanasia that released the first, official study of the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands in 1991. Internationally, this report - Medical Decisions About the End of Life, also called the Remmelink Report - has led to much discussion.
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Dutch lawyer (1922–2003)
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Jan Remmelink was born on 27 April 1922.
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Jan Remmelink died on 15 May 2003 in Groningen.
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Jan Remmelink was a jurist, university teacher and lawyer.
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Jan Remmelink was Dutch.
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