Posted on 03/10/2016 10:32:05 AM PST by Morgana
Euthanasia laws in the Netherlands are very liberal, leaving not only physically ill but also mentally ill patients vulnerable to assisted suicide.
In one case in the Netherlands recently, this resulted in death for a depressed patient with autism. The Washington Post report on this disturbing case shows that Holland’s Regional Euthanasia Review Committees “almost never find fault” with “mercy killings.”
In a recent case, a 30-something patient with autism was labeled “treatable” by one Dutch doctor, but after one more year his request to be killed was approved. The patient was administered a fatal combination of drugs, though the man’s only diagnosis was autism, according to the report. Doctors said the man had been neglected and abused as a child, which also could have been a factor in his wish to die.
The man was one of 110 people to be euthanized for mental disorders between 2011 and 2014 in the country, according to the report. This is a tremendously high number, especially given that the country’s population is nearly 20 times smaller than the United States’.
Columbia University psychiatrist Paul S. Appelbaum writes that widespread euthanasia access is “inducing hopelessness among other individuals with similar conditions and removing pressure for an improvement in psychiatric and social services.”
Appelbaum chairs the World Psychiatric Association’s ethics committee and is planning to address the issue this month.
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In the Post article, Charles Lane says, “Once the Netherlands authorized euthanasia for physical illnesses in 2002, demands to extend this ‘right’ to the suffering mentally ill were inevitable and, indeed, logically consistent.”
Assisted suicide also is facing increased access in Canada, with pressure to include that access to patients with mental illness.
In a column at LifeNews, Wesley Smith listed the proposed guidelines for Canada’s new assisted suicide laws:
Death on demand for those with medically diagnosed serious sicknesses; Death on demand for those with disabilities; Death on demand for those with medically diagnosed mental illnesses. Death on demand for “mature” children with the above conditions, perhaps with parental consent required; Nurses ordered to participate in euthanasia under the direction of a doctor, normalizing killing as an answer to suffering and making it easier for doctors to avoid the dirty work of homicide; Government-paid euthanasia.
The assisted suicide push also continues in the United States. In October, California became the fourth state to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide.
Dr. Mengele I presume.
If the idea is to get rid of people who are a “burden” on society, why the mad rush to import muslims who are not only a burden, but a menace?
Our favorite Wendy's has a young autistic lady who is constantly cleaning up, getting customers drink refills and the like. She is pleasant, gracious and efficient. A lot of people go there because she gives such good service, you'd think you were at Chick Fil'A.
Try to find any Jihadi who you could say that about.
this is some real ####!!!
a group called Final Exit Network works with Dignitas to let you know where to get Nembutal to end your life.
I went down that dark road some several years after my head injury.
All you need to do is send paperwork of your illness, any proof that your pain is real and not very treatable, and you’re in.
Then I remembered God gets to decide that day, not me
And there’s nephews and nieces and FReepers :)
doing quite a bit better since that low point.
THAT’S why it’s so dangerous.
“Muslim Inbreeding: Impacts on intelligence, sanity, health and society”
Daziem uner leben. Existence Without Life. So said the Nazis.
euthanasia should only be in the most sever no hope cases...example some one has untreatable physical not psychological pain where drugs do not alleviate the pain and there is no quality of life and no hoper of recovery. cases like that are extremely rare with modern medicine to the point where any time some one is euthanized it should be treated as a murder investigation with the person who decided to do this legally reasonable and subject criminal findings by a court.
Hitler instituted Aktion T4, the killing of the disabled. He was just ahead of his time it seems.
Getting rid of the “useless” whites and making room for the influx of savages from third world countries.
“Final Exit Network”....It just sounds evil.
I’m afraid we’ve gone from Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night” to...
Problems? —Just take a permanent pass and cease using up our oxygen.
The expedient view of human life still has momentum and the spiritual view occupies a remote corner of our culture. Witness Obama’s approval ratings.
This sounds too convenient. The incidence of Autism has exploded over the last 20 years.
Whether vaccines are the cause or there is some other environmental neurotoxin, I’m sure that Bill Gates, GA Guidestones folks and the population control monsters are ecstatic.
no excuses, but when your head hurts like it was hit with a bat 24/7 for years, you’re dizzy all the time, insomnia 50 hours in a row from a head injury, you see no future, the DEMONS offer a way out.
“take this Nembutal and we will surround you with love while you “pass”.
it would have been no big thing to finish the approval process and get a ticket over there.
they even have mobile death units.
and books on where to buy Nembutal or make it at home.
and helium machines.
because my mother and nieces and nephews and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and wife needed to find me like that.
God forgive me for almost being a BIG coward
“Whether vaccines are the cause...”
I am suspicious of the vaccines.
I hate Dutch socialism with a passion.
Congrats on getting better. You’ve had to deal with a lot.
I had a childhood friend pass away at 53. He wrote a book called “The Pain Chronicles” He had a congenital defect in his neck vertebrae that caused them to splinter when he was in his 40s. He lived with pain 24/7 and also had to rehab his way back from almost fatal doses of various pain meds.
we kill them here just because it’s their mom’s choice.
I am sorry. I may read that.
If I sit for more than a few hours without a pillow, it will feel like every bone in my body is broken and every ligament torn.
Fighting to keep roxys and Xanax at bay for as needed only isn’t a piece of cake either.
I empathize with your friend and I pray God finally gave him some peace.
Splintered vertebrae sounds like a sick nightmare from a horror movie :(
The pain causes several thousand palpitations a day sometime and there was damage to the sinus nodes too.
I gave up wondering if today’s the day.
Only God knows and he’s keeping it a secret :)
In the meantime, he’s kept my belly full and a roof over my head and FR and the ability to work overnight on Staten Island and Amazon Prime :)
This post meant a lot. Thanks for sharing.
I’m sorry you were so low.
but imagine the HIGH of any good times after that low!!!!! :)
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