Posted on 02/05/2017 3:02:02 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
A Dutch euthanasia doctor has been rebuked by a Regional Review Committee after she gave a lethal injection to a demented patient who appeared to be struggling to stop the procedure.
The incident emerged when the Regional Review Committee released euthanasia case reports on January 1. This was Verdict 2016-85.
Here is what happened. An 80-year-old woman with dementia entered a nursing home because her husband could no longer care for her. When the woman was still lucid she expressed two wishes: (a) not to go into a "home for demented elderly" and (b) to be euthanised "when I myself find it the right time". Only the second wish was honoured.
She was unhappy in the nursing home and wandered the corridors at night. After seven weeks of this, the nursing home doctor decided that she must be suffering unbearably. Based on her previous statements, the doctor decided that euthanasia was appropriate.
With members of her family in attendance, the doctor approached to give her a lethal injection. The woman was agitated, so the doctor slipped a sedative into her coffee. This did not work, so she gave her an injection. With all these drugs, the woman dosed off.
But when the needle for the lethal injection appeared, she started to struggle. The doctor had to ask the family members to hold her down so that she could continue with the injection. The woman died soon afterwards. . .
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So he is a murderer.
An eye for an eye.
I can’t even imagine that poor woman’s horror.
I’m sorry. My mom has it too and I am her caregiver. Dad passed from it a year ago. It’s horrible but I wouldn’t want to play Gd and kill people!
That’s the thing, healthy people think that if they are not too good physically that they will then be happy to die. They do not realize that when they are actually at the place when things are hard for them most people still strongly desire to live. So do not give people the right to kill you based upon your assumptions about how you feel now. When the time comes you will likely want to live, despertly.
Well, at least we haven't yet gotten to that point in New Jersey.
Murder.
If the state ever tried, that would be a call to arms
If?
I don’t know how people manage who don’t have family envelopment. My dad’s wife is still at home, not sure for how much longer. I’m so sad about the whole thing. In our state, if the patient can’t feed himself/herself, then the dementia facilities aren’t able to accept them as a resident - they must go into regular nursing home care, at least that’s what we were told a few months ago.
NL is a poster child for PC socialism. Know some Dutch guys; bunch of arrogant metrosexuals that really don’t like America at all. (Very jealous of us, actually.)
This where legal euthanasia inevitably winds up!!!
And those suffering from dementia still know love, joy, and suffering.
Prayers for you and your wife.
>> Prayers that a godly “Silent Majority” is growing
Desperately needed.
Excluding the malleable percentage, the good folks far outnumber the evil ones.
For all those people who advocate for assisted suicide, this is your future.
It tried AND succeeded - in Florida (Terry Shiavo). And, from what I understand, it's been done many times since.
Yes.And events have & will, unfold.
In the U.S. there are memory wards. I’m know there are also not so nice places already here. It’s called “behind closed doors.”
The Dutch have been fans of culture of death since Hitler was in The Netherlands for a while. They never disavowed a culture of death.
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