Did someone say "help to die" TEAMS?
Posted on 11/16/2011 4:11:57 PM PST by wagglebee
The Dutch voluntary euthanasia society is proposing to set up teams of doctors and nurses who can help people to die in their own homes, the AD reports on Wednesday.
The idea of the teams stems from the society's wish to set up a special clinic where people can come to die, which the NVVE announced in January.
'Most people want to die at home,' an NVVE spokesman told the paper. The clinic is still on the cards, but will only have a couple of beds for people who cannot die at home, the spokesman said.
The NVVE says only a third of the 10,000 euthanasia requests made every year are actually honoured. This is because the request procedure is complicated and many doctors are not aware of the finer points of the law, the organisation argues.
The number of reported deaths by euthanasia rose 13% to 2,636 in 2009. Some 80% of people who opt for mercy killing die at home.
Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands under strict conditions. For example, the patient must be suffering unbearable pain and the doctor must be convinced the patient is making an informed choice. The opinion of a second doctor is also required.
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First they’ll stop at the mental hospitals, then it’s off to the homes for the disabled, then you got to go get rid of the elderly, and then head for the prisons, then go find the right wingers...
The numbers rise because the decisions are being made by greedy administrators and family members, rather than the individuals.
Didn’t we have a big fight over this “master race” business awhile back?
Kevorkian lives!
The freakin’ Dutch sure are a bunch of homicidal bass turds. Murderers.
Did someone say "help to die" TEAMS?
They could call their group Murder, Inc.
Most euthanasia in EUrope is involuntary I bet.
I guess they all forget about that little thing called "karma". When those who are so eager for Grandma and Grandpa to die (before the inheritance is spent, but that's only coincidental) are in the same position, do they really think their children and grandchildren are going to show any more kindness to them than they showed their own elderly relatives?
Too angry to comment. Death Panels.
“Help people die”. People have been dying since the dawn of history without “help” from others. That’s called “Murder”.
The only human way to die is to go when God calls.
(Sorry I haven’t pinged much - now struggling with computer but I’ll get there.)
Oh no, not the Dutch again. I wish they would get their act together. It’s supposed to be a Christian nation.
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