[wagglebee]

For months now public meetings have been held in provincial community centers and hotels to encourage the elderly to learn about their “right” to die, even if they are in good health, but afraid of what diagnosed dementia may do to them in the near future.

This is revolting.

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[Westbrook]

> Euthanasia on the rise in Holland: now being applied to patients with dementia

What can be more demented than a frothing, foaming, drooling, fanatical, genocidal Moslem?

Is this how they are going to solve their “multi-cultural” problem?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

"applied to patients with dementia"

The democrats may want to rethink their push for this in the US. The whole lot would be candidates given their behavior and rantings.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

"applied to patients with dementia"

The democrats may want to rethink their push for this in the US. The whole lot would be candidates given their behavior and rantings.

[Panzerlied]

How long before “Dementia” is defined as failure to support a socialist government?

[basil]

People should not try to play God. I think He might frown on that.........

[stevio]

When I was a kid I wondered how Hitler could come to power and do all the things he did. As if, how could people be so stupid/evil? Here it is happening again, this time with a vengeance.

[Sawdring]

If it wasn’t for Global Warming I would set my parents, who are suffering from dementia, afloat on an iceberg. I found fighting for the last remaining bergs with polar bears too stressful.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

[hinckley buzzard]

The Dutch have recorded a rising number of "involuntary euthanasias," unmentioned here. They learned it from their German cousins back in the forties.

[little jeremiah]

95% of Dutch people are in favor of legal euthanasia? That’s really hard to believe.

The Nazis didn’t have to win WW2. Their philosophy is alive and well.

[FourPeas]

Years ago, my mother-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She was given less than 4 months to live. It just happened that the doctor was wrong. She lived an additional 15 years and died from something entirely different.

I’m sure this *never* happens in the Netherlands, but if it did, imagine how many people might have agreed to have been killed when they would have had a decade or more of life to spend with their family and friends.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Something not usually mentioned is that there is a cultural quirk about the Dutch which gives them abnormally high suicide rates.

“The Netherlands, with a population of only 16.8 million, have an estimated 100,000 suicide attempts every year, resulting in “only” 1600 deaths, because successful suicides are often registered by the government as traffic or industrial accidents.”

Importantly, neither euthanasia nor assisted suicide are counted in these statistics. If they were, the number of suicide deaths would be over 5,000. Yet even this is an under count, as many additional medical euthanasia and assisted suicide deaths are not counted in their own statistics.

[SuziQ]

Is anyone surprised? All who oppose euthanasia warned about this at the start.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They deserve to be taken over by the Muslims.

[Oceander]

For months now public meetings have been held in provincial community centers and hotels to encourage the elderly to learn about their “right” to die, even if they are in good health, but afraid of what diagnosed dementia may do to them in the near future.

Which is precisely what has been proposed under Obamacare.

[married21]

Lesson: When it comes to medical care for sick, elderly people, never go Dutch.

[chs68]

This is so wrong in so many ways.

It takes, I am sure, a lot of keen minds and lots of resources to find and develop a cure for diseases like Alzheimer's.

It is my guess, though, that there are probably few people working to find a cure for Alzheimer's. And I would likewise guess that the Dutch spend much money looking for a cure for Alzheimer's.

It is so much easier (and less expensive) to give people the "choice" of killing themselves (along with some encouraging words about "not wanting to be a burden") when they receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's.