 Dr Rosemarine van Bruggem, a geriatrician and ethicist at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, is right about the numbers. In 2023, only 336 of the 9,000-plus patients who chose euthanasia had a diagnosis of dementia. Dr van Bruggem has experience of ending the life of one such person. In my case, it was one patient with an early stage of dementia who was at that point still very mentally competent to express her wishes.