Struggling woman with dementia euthanised in Netherlands

BioEdge ^ | February 4, 2017 | By Michael Cook

[Cowgirl of Justice]

So he is a murderer.

An eye for an eye.

I can’t even imagine that poor woman’s horror.

[Yaelle]

I’m sorry. My mom has it too and I am her caregiver. Dad passed from it a year ago. It’s horrible but I wouldn’t want to play Gd and kill people!

[Bellflower]

That’s the thing, healthy people think that if they are not too good physically that they will then be happy to die. They do not realize that when they are actually at the place when things are hard for them most people still strongly desire to live. So do not give people the right to kill you based upon your assumptions about how you feel now. When the time comes you will likely want to live, despertly.

[stormhill]

You are wonderful. Last time my little girl was here we tried to prepare may wife to bring her to church with me; she's barely ambulatory and we had to concede she is no longer sufficiently mobile to bring her in. Still, she has value to us; the idea of some bureaucrat deciding she's a useless mouth that must be destroyed is offensive.

Well, at least we haven't yet gotten to that point in New Jersey.

[TigersEye]

Murder.

[NativeSon]

If the state ever tried, that would be a call to arms

[BykrBayb]

If?

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

I don’t know how people manage who don’t have family envelopment. My dad’s wife is still at home, not sure for how much longer. I’m so sad about the whole thing. In our state, if the patient can’t feed himself/herself, then the dementia facilities aren’t able to accept them as a resident - they must go into regular nursing home care, at least that’s what we were told a few months ago.

[polymuser]

NL is a poster child for PC socialism. Know some Dutch guys; bunch of arrogant metrosexuals that really don’t like America at all. (Very jealous of us, actually.)

[ontap]

This where legal euthanasia inevitably winds up!!!

[Gene Eric]

And those suffering from dementia still know love, joy, and suffering.

Prayers for you and your wife.

[Gene Eric]

>> Prayers that a godly “Silent Majority” is growing

Desperately needed.

Excluding the malleable percentage, the good folks far outnumber the evil ones.

[Pinkbell]

For all those people who advocate for assisted suicide, this is your future.

[jackibutterfly]

"If the state ever tried, that would be a call to arms"

It tried AND succeeded - in Florida (Terry Shiavo). And, from what I understand, it's been done many times since.

[NativeSon]

Yes.And events have & will, unfold.

[floriduh voter]

In the U.S. there are memory wards. I’m know there are also not so nice places already here. It’s called “behind closed doors.”

[floriduh voter]

The Dutch have been fans of culture of death since Hitler was in The Netherlands for a while. They never disavowed a culture of death.