Pages tagged "euthanasia for dementia"
Dutch doctors oppose euthanasia for dementia.
Feb 11, 2017
Alex Schadenberg Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The NL Times reported today that 220 doctors in the Netherlands sponsored an ad to oppose euthanasia for people with advanced dementia.The article by Janene Pieters published in the NL Times today, states that:
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Dutch nursing home death - more excuses, more killing
Jan 29, 2017
by Paul Russell: Once you create a situation at law where killing of another person is allowed in certain circumstances, not only will the circumstances in which such killing is endorsed or allowed change over time, but the boundaries, however originally drawn, will be entirely ineffective in providing moral, legal and ethical guidance and restraint.In Belgium and The Netherlands in the thousands of euthanasia deaths since their laws came into being in 2002 few cases have ever been referred by the review systems to justice for further scrutiny. In Belgium that number is one; one case only.
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The Netherlands approves euthanasia for severe dementia.
Jan 25, 2016
By Alex Schadenberg. International Chair - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Netherlands government has decided to extend euthanasia to people with dementia who are incompetent to request death by lethal injection, if the person requested euthanasia while still competent.The 2014 Netherlands euthanasia statistics state that out of 5306 euthanasia deaths; 81 people were lethally injected for dementia and 41 people died by euthanasia for psychiatric reasons.
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Court tussle over right to euthanase Dutch woman with dementia
Aug 10, 2015
by Michael Cook 7 Aug 2015 first published at the Bioegde website. Sorry, we missed this euthanasia story from the Netherlands. It deserves to be more widely known.(Cobi Luck pictured on the day of her death.)
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1/3 Dutch GPs Would Kill Mentally Ill!
Apr 17, 2015
by WESLEY J. SMITH Whoa! Don't tell me that euthanasia doesn't lead off a vertical moral cliff: A recent survey of Netherlander MD general practitioners found that very high percentages would kill cancer patients, and 1/3 would be willing to euthanize the mentally ill. From the PsychCentral story:For mental illness, only 34 percent would consider helping the patient die, and 40 percent would help someone with early-stage dementia to die. The rate was slightly lower for late-stage dementia, at 33 percent.
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Belgium ponders child euthanasia this week in parliament
Oct 08, 2013
Newspapers across the globe are reporting that this week the Belgian Parliament will debate extending the Belgian euthanasia laws to include children and those suffering from dementia or other "diseases of the brain". We have already seen in recent weeks that the Euthanasia definition on the grounds of "unbearable psychological or physical suffering" is being tested through a number of media-reported cases. Yet news reports suggest that two-thirds of Belgians support the amendments.
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Dutch Doctors pushed to euthanase more demented
Jun 03, 2013
The post from Wesley Smith's blog, Second Hand Smoke
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