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Struggling woman with dementia euthanised in Netherlands
BioEdge ^ | February 4, 2017 | By Michael Cook

Posted on 02/05/2017 3:02:02 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

A Dutch euthanasia doctor has been rebuked by a Regional Review Committee after she gave a lethal injection to a demented patient who appeared to be struggling to stop the procedure.

The incident emerged when the Regional Review Committee released euthanasia case reports on January 1. This was Verdict 2016-85.

Here is what happened. An 80-year-old woman with dementia entered a nursing home because her husband could no longer care for her. When the woman was still lucid she expressed two wishes: (a) not to go into a "home for demented elderly" and (b) to be euthanised "when I myself find it the right time". Only the second wish was honoured.

She was unhappy in the nursing home and wandered the corridors at night. After seven weeks of this, the nursing home doctor decided that she must be suffering unbearably. Based on her previous statements, the doctor decided that euthanasia was appropriate.

With members of her family in attendance, the doctor approached to give her a lethal injection. The woman was agitated, so the doctor slipped a sedative into her coffee. This did not work, so she gave her an injection. With all these drugs, the woman dosed off.

But when the needle for the lethal injection appeared, she started to struggle. The doctor had to ask the family members to hold her down so that she could continue with the injection. The woman died soon afterwards. . .

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KEYWORDS: deathcult; dutch; murder; netherlands; prolife; whiteroseresistance
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To: Brad from Tennessee

So he is a murderer.

An eye for an eye.

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


21 posted on 02/05/2017 4:25:57 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: stormhill

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!


22 posted on 02/05/2017 4:26:48 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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.


23 posted on 02/05/2017 4:32:14 PM PST by Bellflower (Dems = Mat 6:23 ....If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!)
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To: Yaelle
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.

24 posted on 02/05/2017 4:46:05 PM PST by stormhill
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Murder.


25 posted on 02/05/2017 5:05:46 PM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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To: stormhill

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


26 posted on 02/05/2017 5:26:25 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: NativeSon

If?


27 posted on 02/05/2017 5:58:27 PM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: stormhill

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.


28 posted on 02/05/2017 9:05:04 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( I would LOVE to have my old "substandard" insurance back. It didn't mean $24K annual out of pocket)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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.)


29 posted on 02/05/2017 9:22:29 PM PST by polymuser
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This where legal euthanasia inevitably winds up!!!


30 posted on 02/06/2017 6:37:07 AM PST by ontap
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To: stormhill

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

Prayers for you and your wife.


31 posted on 02/06/2017 7:34:31 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

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

Desperately needed.

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


32 posted on 02/06/2017 7:37:53 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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


33 posted on 02/06/2017 8:49:17 PM PST by Pinkbell (http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2016/11/cnn-lies-multiple-times-to-help-hillary.html)
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To: NativeSon
"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.

34 posted on 02/07/2017 8:48:55 PM PST by jackibutterfly (We have to stop saying "How stupid can you get". Too many people are seeing it as a challenge.)
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To: jackibutterfly

Yes.And events have & will, unfold.


35 posted on 02/07/2017 10:58:43 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: BykrBayb

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.”


36 posted on 02/27/2017 2:03:31 PM PST by floriduh voter (Donald J. Trump, President Elect My Make America Great Again hat on its way.)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

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.


37 posted on 02/27/2017 2:05:11 PM PST by floriduh voter (Donald J. Trump, President Elect My Make America Great Again hat on its way.)
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