Category: ALS

ALS Assisted Dying Crime Disability Japan

Kyoto District Court Sentences Doctor Accused of Euthanizing ALS Patient to 13 Years for Killing Father

According to the verdict, Yamamoto conspired with his mother, 78, and fellow doctor Yoshikazu Okubo, 44, to kill his father, Yasushi, then 77, by unknown means in a Tokyo apartment in March 2011.