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March 29, 2005
Dutch to issue new euthanasia policy
Topics: Euthanasia advocacyIf you can't decide to be euthanized for yourself, no problem, the Dutch Government is making plans to do it for you. If the Terri Schiavo case hasn't terrified you by now, maybe this will help.
Ah, Judge George Greer would find quite a home in the Netherlands.
- Seattlepi.com
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Dutch Health Ministry will soon issue
its opinion on a proposal to expand the country's euthanasia policy to
cover infants, the mentally handicapped and the demented, a spokesman
said Tuesday.
Health Secretary Clemence Ross, who has opposed expanding euthanasia laws in the past, is to send an opinion to Parliament on the long-running debate in three or four weeks, spokesman Richard Lancee told The Associated Press.
Under current law, euthanasia can be administered in the Netherlands to people who are terminally ill with no hope of recovery, are suffering great pain and who ask to die. Two doctors must agree.
All cases must be reported to an external panel of medical and ethical experts who decide if the procedure was properly carried out. There were 1,815 reported cases in 2003.
Ross is to lay out the government's position on creating similar panels to vet cases where people are terminally ill and deemed to be in great suffering, but are unable to decide for themselves whether they want to die.
Is this where the US is headed after Terri Schiavo is murdered in Florida?
Posted by Hyscience at March 29, 2005 6:50 PM
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Comments
God help us.
Posted by: Marine Momma at March 29, 2005 7:52 PM
Oh, we have outdone the Dutch by far. You will note that currently one has to have a terminal illness and be in pain. We euthanize those whom we say are not in pain and do not have a terminal illness already!
This is what I just cannot comprehend. How did we get from illegal to done deal on someone who has not terminal illness?? One minute euthanasia was illegal in this country and next thing I know they are actully doing it in the most cruel and protracted manner possible.
No, the current guidelines in the Netherlands requires a terminal illness and pain be present and Terri has neither and yet she is dying a slow and horrible death so guess we are already there, well ahead of the Dutch and every other so-called civilized nation on earth. And faster than anyone could have imagined. What or who is next? No wonder there is no social security problem, this should fix it.
Posted by: Amelia at March 29, 2005 8:35 PM
Breaking news, Wed. 12:30 am EST -- according to this story, http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050330/D8953NLG0.html: "A federal appeals court early Wednesday agreed to consider a petition for a new hearing on whether to reconnect Terri Schiavo's feeding tube."
Not sure what this means, or if it's even in time.
Posted by: M .E. at March 30, 2005 1:13 AM
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