Posted on 07/08/2023 6:36:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
Intellectual disability played a significant role in the suffering of 21% of those euthanized
Netherlands programs have euthanized otherwise healthy individuals with autism and intellectual handicaps in recent years, researchers have found.
Five individuals under the age of 30, who cited autism as a factor in their decision to seek legal euthanasia, are among the cases reviewed by specialists at the U.K.'s Kingston University.
"Factors directly associated with intellectual disability and/or ASD were the sole cause of suffering described in 21% of cases and a major contributing factor in a further 42% of cases," Kingston University's report on the issue found.
The study noted that in many cases, doctors determined there was "no prospect of improvement" for intellectually challenged individuals because there is no treatment for their handicap.
"Reasons for the EAS [euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide] request included social isolation and loneliness (77%), lack of resilience or coping strategies (56%), lack of flexibility (rigid thinking or difficulty adapting to change) (44%) and oversensitivity to stimuli (26%). In one-third of cases, physicians noted there was ‘no prospect of improvement’ as ASD and intellectual disability are not treatable," the study reads.
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It’s like the Nazis never left.
The US has instead adopted castration.
I wrote about Wesley Smith’s book, Forced Exit, years ago when researching the Groningen Protocols used to terminate “undesirable” children and preemies in the Netherlands.
This has been going on for years.
A friend's father who had Alzheimer’s was recently hospitalized with a heart attack and hooked up to machines. The attending doctor didn't think the old man would make it. My friend, respecting Dad's wishes to not be on machines, signed a paper approving the de-machining and putting the Dad on "comfort care" which (IN GENERAL) is basically no curative care. That was ok - that was the Dad's wishes.
The old man pulled through, but the hospital refused to put Dad back on fluids or nutrition because - you guessed it - "comfort care" IN THAT HOSPITAL and for THAT DOCTOR is effectively Terri Schaivo-style starvation and dehydration.
They said, food and water was a medical treatment and thus "curative" and AGAINST the rules of "comfort care."
My friend was stunned. And the attending and her team wouldn't budge. For the next few days, my friend and siblings heard from scores of nurses etc that withholding fluids was effectively "the right thing to do"....very Terri Schaivo-like.
It took a virtual miracle whereby a different doctor intervened, said the father clearly wasn't terminal, and put the old man back on nutrition and fluids. While my friend's Dad passed away peacefully in his sleep a few weeks later, it was on terms Dad would have preferred.
Euthanasia is, technically, illegal. And I know many people would be OK if fluids were withheld when it is THEIR time to go. Fair enough.
But if the patent is mentally gone, or “intellectually handicapped”, euthanasia can be made legal if you're not careful with Fine Print. And FWIW, the "mercy killing" mindset of the attending needs to be closely monitored.
A sizeable portion of the Dutch population is Satanic and/or Nazi.
How Nazi of them.
“A sizeable portion of the Dutch population is Satanic and/or Nazi.”
Well someone in their population turned in the Anne Frank family. Apparently, it may have been burglars. Another reason to shoot the MFers the second they cross your threshold.
Why did they even bother fighting the Nazis?
Ironically no Dutch politicians have been euthanized so far.
Josef Menegle smiles from Hell.
So does Seyss-Inquart.
Not just Dutch, I never heard of a congress critter or president or Veep euthanized either. And the neocon congress critters never go in combat situation either.
They just took off the snappy uniforms.
They’d have a lot more success if they euthanized leftists.
There ya go!
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