The Netherlands has had a new euthanasia law for several years: the law on the assessment of termination of life on request and assisted suicide. This law empowers a physician to administer a drug to the patient that results in death. The doctor may also make the medicine available for the patient to self-administer. This […]
In het studiejaar 2020-2021 starten we een nieuwe opleiding aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: de Nederlandstalige postacademische opleiding tot hindoe geestelijke verzorger. Het is de eerste opleiding in Nederland die zich richt op geestelijke verzorging gevoed door [...]
Prof. Dr. Sharda S. Nandram, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Nyenrode Business Universiteit I asked my 94-year-old father about his memories of the Divali festival. As so often, he has many. “I can still remember how women used to go from house to house before Divali to sell big baskets full of diyás (earth pots with […]