Pages tagged "Netherlands"
The Trouble with euthanasia - some facts
Apr 09, 2014
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Euthanasia of newborns under the microscope
Mar 04, 2014
This is an excellent summary of the data from The Netherlands on child euthanasia written by Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Miami University, Prof. Felipe E. Vizcarrondo MD, MA, FCP.
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Euthanasia: What could possibly go wrong?
Feb 21, 2014
The following article was written by Margaret Wente and published in on February 20, 2014.The Globe and Mail
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Dutch health minister: 45 psychiatric euthanasia deaths in 2013.
Feb 13, 2014
By Alex SchadenbergInternational Chair, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
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The Dutch Debate Doctor-Assisted Suicide For Depression
Feb 04, 2014
, writing for the online news service, , explores the incremental extension of euthanasia in The Netherlands from "unbearable and hopeless suffering" to euthanasia for depression.Nadette De Visser
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New study on Belgian doctors medical practice at the end-of-life creates more concerns
Feb 03, 2014
What is really going on in Belgium? The longer the practice of euthanasia develops both in Belgium and in the Netherlands, the more obvious it becomes that the illusion of regulatory control, ethical behaviour and limitation on who qualifies blurs and collapses in upon itself. The following report by Michael Cook from
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The euthanasia law in The Netherlands is derailed
Jan 20, 2014
This is an edited version of a report written by Tom Mortier. Tom Mortier
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Let's not forget how the Dutch do death by euthanasia
Dec 11, 2013
While a great deal of the focus on the euthanasia front is looking at Belgium at the moment, it is worth remembering that The Netherlands created patient killing by doctors long before their near neighbours. The Dutch reporting system tells the story as
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Belgium, where death becomes the norm, living the exception.
Nov 13, 2013
A documentary about ten years of legal euthanasia is a touchstone for radically different approaches to suffering. By Margaret Somerville - This article was published on Mercatornet
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Tasmania: A 'Last Resort'?
Oct 14, 2013
In 2012, at the tenth anniversary of the Dutch euthanasia laws, Eric van Wijlick, policy maker at the Royal Dutch Society of Doctors (KNMG) lamented that, "Euthanasia has become the central point of conversation between a doctor and a patient who is suffering when it should be seen as a "last resort"." The Royal Dutch Society of Doctors supports the law.
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