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Writer and Combative Ill Karin Spaink (68) Passed Away

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She was diagnosed with MS in 1986. That disease proved fatal after forty productive years.

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In 1999, she co-founded the digital civil rights movement Bits of Freedom. Karin Spaink chose euthanasia this week. "I am not sick, it is my body," she said about her illness, multiple sclerosis.

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She was diagnosed with MS in 1986. That disease proved fatal after forty productive years.

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Writer and columnist Karin Spaink has passed away. This was announced in a text on her own website. She was 68 years old.

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Karin Spaink died without regret: 'I wanted to determine my own limit' dpa Writer and columnist Karin Spaink has passed away at the age of 68. She chose euthanasia herself after living with multiple sclerosis (MS) for decades, a disease that worsened three years ago. In a farewell text on her own website, she writes that she died without regret or remorse. Spaink published her farewell online herself. "If everything went according to plan, I pas…

Karin Spaink passed away this morning at the age of 68. She announced this in a message published on her website today. The columnist and activist, who had been ill for some time, chose euthanasia. Spaink was a columnist for Het Parool for over 30 years, for which she wrote more than 1,000 columns. She also wrote for De Groene Amsterdammer, de Volkskrant, and NRC. Until last year, Spaink worked for the investigative journalistic platform Follow …

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Bits of Freedom broke the news on Friday, May 8, 2026.
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