Posted on 06/16/2010 3:53:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
June 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The 2009 Netherlands euthanasia statistics were reported today in the Dutch media. The number of euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands has significantly increased on a yearly basis for several years. The most recent report suggested that there were 2636 reported euthanasia deaths, a 13% increase over the 2008 statistics.
It should be noted that the media reports concerning euthanasia in the Netherlands do not include all categories of direct and intentional reported deaths. The Netherlands has separate categories for assisted suicide and deaths without explicit request or consent.
The most recent full report concerning euthanasia in the Netherlands (2005) stated that there were approximately 400 assisted suicide deaths and 550 deaths without explicit request or consent.
Therefore a more accurate number of reported deaths would be 2636 reported euthanasia deaths, plus 400 reported assisted suicide deaths, plus 550 deaths without explicit request or consent.
The number of reported euthanasia deaths has grown significantly. In 2008 there were 2331 reported deaths, in 2007 there were 2120 reported deaths, in 2006 there were 1923 reported deaths, and in 2003 there were 1815 reported deaths.
The number of deaths by euthanasia continues to escalate. Consider the fact that the 2005 official study of euthanasia in the Netherlands indicated that 7.1% of all deaths were by sedation and dehydration. These are often euthanasia deaths because the death is direct and intentional and the method of death is dehydration. A 2007 report suggested that up to 10% of all deaths in the Netherlands were by sedation and dehydration.
There is a clear ethical difference between intentionally withholding fluids from a person who is nearing death, and dies a natural death, and a person who was not otherwise dying and dies by intentional dehydration.
In addition, the yearly reports from the media do not include the number of infant eugenic euthanasia deaths, killed via the Groningen Protocol. (See an article concerning the number of euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands here)
Meanwhile a study by Anthropologist Anne Marie The suggested that many of the reported cases of euthanasia were not voluntarily requested by the person who died. Anne Marie The interviewed physicians who participated in euthanasia and asked them about specific circumstances. She found that often the decision to go ahead with euthanasia was made by the physician.
Anne Marie The stated to the NRC Handlesblad:
"There is the euthanasia law and then there is the euthanasia reality. To think that we have neatly arranged everything by adopting the euthanasia law is an illusion. Reality is more complicated than that: every patient, every situation and every doctor is different."
Now, leaders of the Dutch euthanasia lobby, including Eugene Sutorius, the former leader of the NVVE, are urging parliament to legalize euthanasia for people who are 70 years old and "tired of living." This concept is ridiculous if you consider the reality of elder abuse in the Western culture.
An article in the Dutch news stated that: "The 2008 increase led the health ministry to set up an investigation into the increase. That investigation is due to start this month."
The reality is that euthanasia is out of control in the Netherlands.
At the same time momentum is shifting against the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide in other parts of the world. In January, the New Hampshire legislature, defeated a bill to legalize assisted suicide by 242 to 113. In April, a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide was defeated in Canada by 228 to 59. Most recently, the Connecticut court rejected a legal challenge by Compassion & Choices to strike down the State assisted suicide law.
And it will get out of control ANYWHERE that it's permitted.
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Gee, who didn’t see that coming?
Too bad they didn’t get to Joran Van Der Sloot before he went on his trip abroad.
Oh my God! And I say that with reverence.
This is so horrible, wagglebee. Supporters of this evil cannot be unaware of what this inevitably leads to. They just love death, that’s all there is to it, because they hate the Author of Life.
My heart aches for the victims. Crying.
Soon to be a cottage industry in America. Red pill or blue pill, it’s all up to the Secretary under Obamacare.
Yes, they know they’ve chosen evil.
And then incentivize them.
Gee, what d'ya suppose that means?
Anyone who doubts the validity of the "slippery slope" concept needs to study the Dutch experiment long and hard. It didn't start out this way.
funny what happens when you legalize things.
And then incentivize them.
And then make them mandatory.
No surprise here, but you can’t tell that to the proponents of legalized murder.
Ah, yes. That's always the way it goes, isn't it? Persuasion >> Coercion >> Force.
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