Posted on 09/17/2016 6:22:52 AM PDT by rickmichaels
The first child has been euthanised in Belgium after the country adopted new rules in 2014.
The country now allows doctor-assisted death for children of all ages and today the head of the national committee for euthanasia discussed the first case.
Wim Distelmans, who chairs Belgium's Federal Control and Evaluation Committee on Euthanasia, said in an emailed statement that the first case was reported to his committee by a local doctor last week.
The underage person was reported as being critically ill but no other information was given.
Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002, and two years ago amended the rules to permit doctor-assisted death for minors in a hopeless medical situation.
It is the only country in the world allowing euthanasia on minors of all ages. In the neighbouring Netherlands the practice is possible for children aged at least 12.
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Euthanizing is NOT “allowing.”
That is so evil on so many levels that it is basically useless to start naming them.
Remember that war in Europe back in the 40s? Yeah, the Nazis won it.
I guess they have to make room for the refugees.
Euthanized?
Call it what it is — Belgium has legalized murder.
So sad, go with God young child.
God is not mocked. Europe will not escape the consequences of her contempt for Him.
age 17, per reuters
Neither will the rest of the world.
Neither will the rest of the world.
Our Evaluation Committee decided to murder them before they are born and the feds help fund it.
Oh, wonderful Belguim.
Home to the EU, no-go zones in Muslim infested cities and now legalized murder of children outside the womb.
If only America could be so advanced.
Love,
Hillary
I will tell you this Bob, after raising Cocker Spaniels for over 20 years. A dog breaks your heart 1 time. And that is when they die.
This isn’t’ the US, or any other country than Belguim.
I’m not saying that the libs aren’t salivating over the prospect of more Dr induced murder.
I’m saying it isn’t here. And I see a massive up hill fight when they dare propose it.
Very true. Very true indeed.
I keep praying for execution on Psalm 2.
They break your heart when they are in pain and whimpering. When they are paralyzed and will never walk again. When they are in constant pain and look to YOU for relief. When they are bewildered over what they did wrong to feel so bad. Euthanasia is a last resort. But in extreme cases it is a humane one.
Pray tell has anyone here seen a 9 year old in the last weeks of dying from cystic fibrosis?
You guys can scold and demean and condemn me all you want but in that case anything comfortable the doctors can do per a decision of the parents to speed up the inevitable and end the absolute worst suffering I’ve seen in my life visited upon anyone much less a child then fire away
Yes yes I know it’s easily abused etc etc
But there is no justifiable reason in my opinion to prolong the incredible suffering of a child who is going to die anyway in a week or two anyhow
Pleading with the parents or docs to “kill me please please” as they struggle in steady panic to breath every damn breath like breathing through a coffee stirrer
Literally pulling their hair out in clumps and tearing nails off their fingers on the sheets
Begging for mercy
Hell with high minded bullshit at that point
I can’t even think about it really without crying and old and hard
Until you’ve seen it or been close to a family it happened to
But wardaddy you know the docs will up the opiates to do the same
No they don’t they are acutely aware with a child in a hospital that they are on record
This is ain’t grandma at home sleeping or gently rattling as she fades away and the morphine eases the glide
No condemnation from these quarters. I’ve never seen a child die of that horrible disease, but your description of it is sufficient for me to side with you on this. It’s the eminently humane decision.
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