Today, the Procurator General (PG) of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, Jos Silvis, brought two appeals in cassation in the interest of the law in a euthanasia case. These concern both the criminal case and the disciplinary case against a nursing home physician who carried out euthanasia, upon a competently written advance request, on a patient unbearably suffering from dementia with no prospect of improvement. The patient had recorded in writing her wish to die in case of severe dementia at a stage where institutional nursing care would be inevitable. The PG’s appeals are intended to allow the Supreme Court to steer the development of the law on euthanasia.