Posted on 01/29/2011 12:18:48 PM PST by wagglebee
The Dutch voluntary euthanasia society (NVVE) is planning to open an eight-person clinic in 2012 where people can go to end their lives. It estimates that about 1,000 people a year would take advantage of its facilities. It would cater for people whose doctors have refused to euthanase them. Not only people with an incurable illness, but also people with chronic psychiatric conditions and dementia would be welcome.
Reported deaths by euthanasia in the Netherlands rose 13% to 2,636 in 2009, although it is strongly suspected that there are many unreported euthanasia deaths. Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands under certain conditions. The patient is supposed to be suffering unbearable pain and the doctor must be convinced the patient is making an informed choice. The opinion of a second doctor is also required. It is not altogether clear how the proposed clinic would meet these guidelines.
The Dutch medical association (KNMG) does not support the clinic – partly because patients would only stay there for three days before they died. A spokesman for the KNMG said that doctors feared that the clinic would not give proper care and would make death too easy. "Decisions about death require an open mind, not a tunnel vision in which the only outcome is death," said the spokesman.
The NVVE is seeking a partner to help finance the project.
They failed when they made euthanasia an option in the first place.
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The slippery slope turned into an ice slide. Only the willfully blind couldn’t see that coming.
I wonder why the U.S. prison systems just don’t pay these Dutch “clinics” to take out those criminals sentenced to receive the death penalty in this country. That would shut up all the whiners who think that putting a monster to death is “cruel and unusual”. These “clinics” sound like they can make it a delightful, “life experience”.
Just think there are people out there that believe the greatest good they can perform is killing some poor depressed soul. Further, these killers do so in good conscience. This is frightening-a murder club!
The death cult rides high in the Euro-Splat
In unrelated news, international corporation Soylent will open a food processing plant in the neighborhood...
but they are opposed to putting murderers and child molesters to death..... is child molestation still illegal over there? Incest apparently isn’t. Just wondering!
Interesting use of the word "welcome."
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
It wouldn’t surprise me at all.
I wonder if Kathleen Siebelius is booking a flight over there to find out how it works and introduce it as part of the Obamarx Healthcare regulations that she can write.
I don’t know either.
First they came for the babies in the womb, and I didn't speak out because it wasn't any of my business.
Then they came for the sick, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't sick.
Then they came for the disabled, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't disabled.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
I’m sure it’s buried in Obamacare.
Only the larger cities.
Conveniently, though, those living in communities underserved by Soylent Green Preprocessing Facilities will be able to travel by bullet-train to get their bullet.
They’ve been trying to get this implemented for over a century and became successful with Russian-English-American Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger’s mentor, until Hitler and the Holocaust where it was all dismantled. They’re here again only under another name and working diligently in Oregon and a few other states. They may not have the clinics yet but they’re still doing lucifer’s work...it must be stopped for more reasons than one.
Bingo! I think it was Bertrand Russel or was it Huxley who first talked about “useless eaters”.
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