Posted on 03/24/2008 4:12:21 PM PDT by wagglebee
Amsterdam, Netherlands (LifeNews.com) -- A Netherlands psychiatrist who assisted in the suicide of a grieving mother that ultimately led to the Dutch Supreme Court ruling that the depressed should have the right to kill themselves has now published a do-it-yourself guide to committing suicide.
The guide is expected to go on sale soon in the European nation and it contains detailed information on how people can use drugs to kill themselves.
It also contains information on how to perform other acts of suicide using starvation techniques and describes the quickest and least painful ways to do so.
"Doctors learn little about this subject during their training," author and psychiatrist Boudewijn Chabot says, according to the London Telegraph. "This book is for people who want to make their own decisions about ending their own lives."
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal in the Netherlands and, together, there are already about 4,400 suicides annually.
For noted bioethics watchdog Wesley Smith, that number is high enough already without the publication of a book encouraging more deaths.
"Not content with thousands of euthanasia and assisted suicide deaths a year, the Dutch are about to have access to a suicide guide," he said. "The Dutch have a high suicide rate already."
About Chabot, Smith said he's concerned such a prominent euthanasia advocate would be encouraging more people to kill themselves.
"The author is a true villain in the modern story of euthanasia and assisted suicide," Smith said.
Smith indicated the guide is the slippery slope of euthanasia that promotes death as a solution to any depression or medical ailments.
"The culture of death is like heroin: Once you start to mainline, it is never enough," Smith concluded.
"The culture of death is like heroin: Once you start to mainline, it is never enough," Smith concluded.
Very true.
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Smith indicated the Koran is the slippery slope of euthanasia that promotes death as a solution to any depression or medical ailments.
“The culture of Islam is like heroin: Once you start to mainline, it is never enough,” Smith concluded.
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That too!
The war in Iraq isn’t really a war, because we’re winning? How many subjects is Dr. Death wrong on?
Understatement of the year.
In the USA, psychiatrists save depressed patients from suicide, not murder them. Guess I don't understand the intricacies of socialized medicine. Maybe Obama or Hillary can explain it all to me.
Boudewijn Chabot is a criminal disgrace to medicine and humanity.
pick one.....
You’ve touched on a key point there, with socialized medicine, you need to reduce every way possible; quickly and cheaply getting rid of over 4000 patients per year is very efficient.
sorry...I meant socialized medicine needs to reduce COSTS every way possible....my typo.
This psychiatrist seems to solve everything, heal everything, cure -— well, shall we say “eliminate” -— everything, with a kind of idiot arithmetic consisting solely of subtraction.
I would think any relatives of the grieving mother would be able to sue the bejesus out of this “doctor” for malpractice. Was he being paid to convince the patient to commit suicide? Then again, I have to remind myself we’re talking about Europe, here.
I guess this is the new "cure all".
You lost your job? Kill Yourself
You have a poor self image? Kill Yourself
Depressed? Kill Yourself
Have a bad day at the office? Kill Yourself
Your spouse leave you? Kill Yourself
They could at least suggest they become alcoholics or meth addicts for a while, first.
LOL Phase it in, huh?
buy this book hillary, buy this book.
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