Posted on 04/21/2020 9:47:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Netherlands’ highest court ruled Tuesday that doctors can carry out euthanasia in patients with advanced dementia if the patient has earlier made a written directive.
The Supreme Court ruling solidifies in law a practice that already was being carried out on rare occasions in the Netherlands.
Dutch euthanasia advocacy group NVVE welcomed the ruling, saying in a statement that the decision should help doctors “to feel strengthened and supported if they want to carry out euthanasia on a patient with dementia.”
The case before the Supreme Court revolved around a district court’s acquittal last year of a doctor who in 2016 carried out euthanasia on a 74-year-old woman. Prosecutors argued at the doctor’s trial in The Hague there were indications the woman might have changed her mind since she declared her wish to be euthanized in a written statement.
“The court ruled that the doctor acted with due care and was therefore not punishable,” Supreme Court Judge Willem van Schendel said. “According to the Supreme Court, the court did not make any mistakes in its judgment.” …
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Slow Joe should be glad he doesn’t live there.
Goodbye Joe.
Can we send Slow Joe to the Netherlands then?
They also euthanize transgenders who found out their decision to make an operation was wrong. I kid you not.
I’d add the frequent cases of advanced TDS to the eligible list!
I watched my grandmother die with dementia, terrified of everything. I watched the toll it took on my mom, watching her mother die by degrees and knowing there was nothing she could do to help her. That is the last way I would want to go, and if this option was available in the U.S. and I had reason to sign such a directive for myself then I would do it in a heart-beat.
So, murder.
Came here to be the first in with Joe Biden comments.
Should have got here much sooner.
Killing people who may not even know why they are targeted.
In the Netherlands they euthanize their dementia patients, here we run them for President.....
No, assisted suicide. The person being euthanized has to have signed a directive when they were still able to do so.
“And I’m … ahhhhh … traveling, you know, the virus, the virus won’t, you know, not stopping me. I’m going, going, my staff says, The Hague, not sure why. They’ll tell me when I get there.”
Euthanasia in patients with advanced dementia if the patient has earlier made a written directive....is still killing another individual even if you supply and show how to do it for themselves.
Just one ruling away from being the youngest country on earth.
“assisted suicide”....is still murder.
Depends on your point of view I guess.
Good and evil being dependent on one’s point of view has led to humanity’s worst problems.
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