Posted on 07/05/2023 5:33:50 PM PDT by Morgana
(AP) Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead normal lives, researchers have found.
The cases included five people younger than 30 who cited autism as either the only reason or a major contributing factor for euthanasia, setting an uneasy precedent that some experts say stretches the limits of what the law originally intended.
In 2002, the Netherlands became the first country to allow doctors to kill patients at their request if they met strict requirements, including having an incurable illness causing “unbearable” physical or mental suffering.
Between 2012 and 2021, nearly 60,000 people were killed at their own request, according to the Dutch government’s euthanasia review committee. To show how the rules are being applied and interpreted, the committee has released documents related to more than 900 of those people, most of whom were older and had conditions including cancer, Parkinson’s and ALS.
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, a palliative care specialist at Britain’s Kingston University, and her colleagues reviewed the documents to see how Dutch doctors were dealing with euthanasia requests from people with autism or with lifelong mental impairments. They published their findings in the journal BJPsych Open in May.
Among the 900 people with publicly posted case files, 39 of them were autistic and/or intellectually disabled. A handful were elderly, but 18 of them were younger than 50.
Many of the patients cited different combinations of mental problems, physical ailments, diseases or aging-related difficulties as reasons for seeking euthanasia. Thirty included being lonely as one the causes of their unbearable pain. Eight said the only causes of their suffering were factors linked to their intellectual disability or autism — social isolation, a lack of coping strategies or an inability to adjust their thinking.
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It's starting all over again. It's like a disease spreading across the world.
How are they competent to make such decisions?
Georgia Guidestone rule #3.
Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
These people are being kept out of the market place and kept stressed by keeping them at a minimal level of support for life. That’s going to break most of us.
These Dutch people need help.
Here in the USA the doctors just give them transgender drugs and operations.
(65% of girls with gender dysphoria are on the spectrum for autism or other mental illnesses)
I think “WOKENESS” should qualify a person for euthanasia.
You are right.
We have a son with autism. I wish we could take him with us and not have to leave him in this wicked world when we die.
My life would be perfect if I only did not have to live with this hanging over my head. His sister promises to care for him, but I am not so sure about her husband.
I wonder how many just cannot deal with the Vax complications ?
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