Posted on 08/27/2014 7:55:08 AM PDT by wagglebee
It’s official. Like Belgium, The Netherlands has completely lost any sense of respect for the law and has leapt, lemming like off the moral cliff.
Dutch news is reporting on the euthanasia death of an elderly woman who sought euthanasia because she did not want to live in a nursing home.
The report said that she visited a ‘special clinic set up to help people whose doctors do not support euthanasia’. This incident sparked the second reprimand of the ‘Life Clinic’ in the last four months. In the previous case the same clinic euthanasied a woman with identified psychiatric problems without enough consultations with the woman. In this current case, according to the Trouw newspaper, the eutanasia monitoring committee concluded that “The doctor has his decision based solely on the fact that the patient was in a nursing home.”
Earlier this year, Dutch Professor Theo Boer, an early supporter of Dutch euthanasia law, changed his mind. He was most critical of the ‘Life-Clinic’ saying “Doctors of the End of Life Clinic have only two options: administer life-ending drugs or send the patient away.” How is this about genuine choice?
The Dutch mobile euthanasia teams whose aim is also to provide euthanasia in situations where the family doctor refuses was roundly criticised by Boer:
On average, these physicians see a patient three times before administering drugs to end their life. Hundreds of cases were conducted by the End of Life Clinic. The NVVE shows no signs of being satisfied even with these developments. They will not rest until a lethal pill is made available to anyone over 70 years who wishes to die. Some slopes truly are slippery.
From the Dutch news report:
The latest case involves a woman in her 80s who had become partially paralysed since a stroke. Twenty years previously she had written a statement saying she did not want to live permanently in a nursing home. She reconfirmed that position with her doctor 18 months ago.
In order to qualify for euthanasia in the Netherlands, the patient must be ‘suffering unbearably’.
Although this was not the case, the clinic’s doctors decided to perform the euthanasia because this is what the woman wanted. An independent doctor did assess the woman as suffering unbearably, based on gestures and her repeated use of the words ‘kan niet’. (translate: Can not)
Dutch News reports that this is the first time that such a case has been reported to the authorities who are said to be considering prosecution. The ‘Life-Clinics’ have euthanases over 250 Dutch citizens in just over two years.
The Trouw report adds that the referral to the ‘Life-Clinic’ occurred because the nursing home ‘refused to comment on the euthanasia request of her children’. The woman had apparently indcated some 20 years previously in an advance directive that she did not want to live permanently in a nursing home; a claim that she apparently repeated in recent days. It is difficult to tell whether her children were re-enforcing her settled view or, in fact, pushing the case for euthanasia themselves.
Euthanasia is supposed to be available to Dutch citizens who are ‘suffering unbearably’ – an entirely subjective standard that clearly now extends to not being happy about where you want to live!
Herein madness lies!
LifeNews Note: Based in Australia, Paul Russell is a leading campaigner against euthanasia.
Right to Die = Duty to Die
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They even have their own version of the “einsatzgruppen”:
“The Dutch mobile euthanasia teams whose aim is also to provide euthanasia in situations where the family doctor refuses...”
Call it late term fetus directed abortion. Libs will be all for it
Jeepers ... thanks for the ping.
when I was working, I spent time in Romania which was still under a Communist Dictator...the locals would tell me, if family member was sick and require an ambulance, the dispatcher would ask the age, and if over 65, there would be no help, no ambulance....
Will Solomon "Sol" Roth please report to the special clinic? Sol Roth. (Don't tell Thorn)
Call: Life Clinic.
We'll make sure that the 'problem' that is here today will also be gone today.
Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world. His act is worse (symbolically considered) than any rape or dynamite outrage. For it destroys all buildings: it insults all women....He defiles every flower by refusing to live for its sake. There is not a tiny creature in the cosmos at whom his death is not a sneer. When a man hangs himself on a tree, the leaves might fall off in anger and the birds fly away in fury: for each has received a personal affront. Of course there may be pathetic emotional excuses for the act. There often are for rape, and there almost always are for dynamite.
A suicide is a man who cares so little for anything outside him, that he wants to see the last of everything. One wants something to begin: the other wants everything to end. In other words, the martyr is noble, exactly because (however he renounces the world or execrates all humanity) he confesses this ultimate link with life; he sets his heart outside himself: he dies that something may live. The suicide is ignoble because he has not this link with being: he is a mere destroyer; spiritually, he destroys the universe.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Don't worry, people who commit suicide are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Mans` or G*Ds` ?
She wasn’t gonna move, even if it killed her...
Funny, I have a friend who threatened to kill himself for the 4th time in three years.
Told me specifically how he was going to do, his intent was to cause unbelievable pain and bring us joy, at the same time.
I told him “FO. You won’t do any such thing. You are too interested in self fullfilment, at others expense and you derive a pathological pleasure from crossing boundaries.
You will one day soon cross my threshold, from which there is no return but, you are too lazy to take any kind of initiative to alleviate chaos and pain in the world and you’re definitely a world class coward...talk to you later”.
Moron called his aunt, said the same thing, weirdly the police found him and dropped his lazy azz in a psych ward for 24 hours so he could convince the good Dr. he never made such a claim and had no intention of killing himself.
sure enough, he has no follow through but, he did get a couple free meals and some attention.
jackass had the nerve to excoriate me for telling the cops a lie.
I laughed and reminded him that I didn’t take him serious because he is seriously too lazy to do such a thing.
I still think he’ll never do it and if he does...Shiite!
...choice chambers?
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