Posted on 12/01/2011 4:38:47 PM PST by wagglebee
AMSTERDAM, December 1, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Dutch euthanasia advocacy group, “The Right To Die” (NVVE), is proposing a plan where “mobile teams of doctors and nurses … can help people to die in their own homes,” according to DutchNews.nl.
On November 30 health minister Edith Schippers told MPs that the proposal earlier this month by NVVE spokeswoman Walburg de Jong to create the mobile units “for patients who meet the criteria for euthanasia but whose doctors are unwilling to carry it out,” is worthy of consideration.
“If the patients thinks it desirable, the doctor can refer him or her to a mobile team or clinic,” the minister wrote in answer to questions from ChristenUnie party MPs during a discussion of the country’s euthanasia laws.
Euthanasia numbers are consistently rising in the Netherlands, with the number of reported deaths up 19 percent in 2010 to 3,136.
In 2010, the NVVE also argued that people with dementia or chronic psychiatric problems were not being properly served by Dutch euthanasiasts, and offered to ameliorate the situation by both advocating to expand the eligibility criteria for euthanasia, and to open an assisted suicide facility based on the model of the notorious Swiss facility “Dignitas.”
NVVE’s director, Petra de Jong, said in an interview with Volkskrant at the time that while 80% of the Netherlands’ 204 hospices offer euthanasia, mentally ill patients are being “missed.”
Currently euthanasia in the Netherlands is only technically legal when the patient is sound of mind and capable of consistently expressing the death wish. Once dementia has set in, it is legally too late.
Recently, however, the case of a 64-year-old Dutch woman with Alzheimer’s who was euthanized was widely publicized as the “first” such case in the country. The woman, a long-time euthanasia advocate, had reportedly left a note prior to her descent into dementia expressing her wish for euthanasia.
“It’s hardly news when word comes out from the Netherlands that either the government, medical professionals or some private organization are seeking to expand the scope of the euthanasia laws,” wrote Stephen Drake, research analyst for the disability rights group, “Not Dead Yet,” in a commentary on the NVVE’s mobile euthanasia proposal.
“After all, the consistent trend in the Netherlands has been to expand the practices of euthanasia and assisted suicide by expanding eligibility criteria, as we’ve written about.”
Drake comments not only on the proposal to create “mobile teams” that will euthanize people with disabilities, but also on the bias of the mainstream media when reporting on euthanasia and assisted suicide, and the disinformation that pervades the issue.
“It’s also not unusual for the newswire reporters to disseminate articles on assisted suicide, euthanasia, and the Netherlands that are just factually wrong - often egregiously. The Associated Press, in spite of having a code of journalistic ethics it claims to adhere to, is one of the most consistent offenders,” Drake stated.
Read the full text of Stephen Drake’s commentary here.
And other nations have used this as the justification for euthanasia.
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I propose we have some mobile euthanasia teams stationed outside the next Democrat National Convention, either for delegates after listening to Obama and Biden promise what they will do in a second term, for OWS protestors who can’t stand the greed and opulence of their alleged heroes or for us as we watch our country about to die should it appear the same crowd will be re-elected.
Worked great for the Germans--they just used trucks with long hoses attached to the exhaust pipes.
“Roll uuuuuuup...roll up for the Mystery Tour!
“Roll uuuuuuup...roll up for the Mystery Tour!”
Involuntary euthanasia far outnumbers the voluntary kind.
Auschwitz on wheels.
Neat-o! When the U.S. adopts this logical solution to the problem of mounting costs due to the elderly sick, we can dispatch these mobile killing clinics.
Of course, we won’t start with the most brain-dead among us, the politicians who voted for ObamaCare.
Gives new meaning to the term “Hell on wheels”.
Death on wheels.
If people want to kill themselves they should do it on their own dime. There are plenty of creative ways to die. All joking aside, I really have no problem with euthanasia, but it shouldn’t be subsidized.
It won’t be hard for the Dutch to get these mobile teams up and running. Some of their grand dads who served in the Wiking S.S. Division had some work with Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommando squads.
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