Tech Innovations
in Dying
The Tech Innovations in Dying Stichting (TIID Stichting) is a public benefit (ANBI) stichting that focuses on enabling new and emerging end of life technologies in order to facilitate lawful, autonomous, and intelligent means of dying where control is in the hands of the person whose death it is.
VISION
The vision of the TIID Stichting is to enable new and emerging technologies to facilitate lawful, autonomous, and intelligent means of dying where control is in the hands of the person whose death it is.
The vision is predicated upon the need for ensuring maximum individual autonomy in older adults of sound mind and rational action.
COMING UP
TIID
International
Conference
2026
Mission
The mission of the Tech Innovations in Dying Stichting is to employ new and emerging technologies to drive change and promote autonomous, intelligent decisions in dying.
The means by which the change will be achieved include: research and development, public advocacy, consensus building and public engagement, organisational collaborations and policy input and influence.
Activities
Program of Investigation
The Research and Development program (R&D) of TIID is focused upon the use of new and emerging technologies in lawful, elective end of life decision-making.
Collaboration
TIID is committed to operating as the research ‘arm’ (or brains trust) for the right to die movement both within the Netherlands and internationally.
Fund-raising
TIID is actively seeking to raise funds via donations and bequests from members of the public who support the vision, objectives and activities of the Stichting.
Research Lab
The TIID is currently establishing the first Research Lab of its kind to focus on technological innovations in dying.
Public Awareness Raising & Education
TIID is initiating an active communication program designed to raise public awareness of its activities and goals.
Policy Input and Expertise
Through its active program of research and development and public awareness and eduction, TIID is well placed to assist and provide expertise to government in policy reform areas.
Background
Over the past 30 years and in the majority of countries where assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia are now legal, control over dying is tightly controlled by the medical profession.
As Dutch writer/ journalist, Henk Blenken, wrote in The Guardian in 2018:
‘It is a sad story. The right to die has been discussed for so long now in the Netherlands that we have come to believe we each have the right to die when we want. But when push comes to shove, the patient is not the one who decides on their euthanasia. It is the doctor who decides, and no one else’.
The medicalisation of the dying process has resulted in several unfortunate outcomes.
