Posted on 04/22/2020 12:30:59 AM PDT by Helicondelta
More than 20 years ago, the Dutch Supreme Court approved the assisted suicide of a woman in despair because her children had died. So we shouldn’t be surprised that it has now explicitly approved the forced euthanasia of patients with dementia if they asked to be killed before becoming incompetent. From Reuters:
The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that doctors could legally carry out euthanasia on people with advanced dementia who had earlier put their wishes in writing even if they could no longer confirm them because of their illness.
What the Reuters story failed to mention — and apparently the Supreme Court found to be irrelevant — is that the case in question involved a woman who fought against being killed. Nor does the story mention that the doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and that the doctor instructed the family to hold the struggling woman down so that she could administer the lethal injection.
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Isn’t there a nuanced difference between euthanasia and murder?
In America you get the DNC nomination instead of euthanized.
The party of death.
So much for “full consent of the will”
Like having to forcibly hold somebody down while you inject them?
Many here know that I had a head injury over a dozen years ago now.
I survived it but the suffering for maybe 5 or 6 years was so bad I lost count of the number of days I wanted to die. I went to bed with a bottle of oxycodone in case I couldn’t take the pain in my head anymore and decided to kill myself. I didn’t know your head could hurt so much.
Several times I went into the psych ward voluntarily just to have a few weeks of protection from myself to regather and fight another year.
doctors said all healing was first three years and that’s it so I really had no hope.
And I did take a tremendous amount of benzodiazepines once and it wasn’t a cry for help it was a cry for death :-)
I ended up in the emergency room having nightmares that those big scary Muppets were operating on me.
Then six years later after this all began I started to feel a tiny bit less pain. Then the next year a little less until finally I wake up now sometimes with headaches that last a few minutes only and I have no pain during the day at all. And many mornings I wake up with no pain just some tremors.
And they only last a few minutes
I got to see President Trump get elected and got to vote for him. I got to see my first Grand nephew born. I got to remember how great it felt to hold a woman :-)
Great meals. Great times with family. A lot of fun just watching a movie I like and eating a pizza.
I have asked God’s forgiveness for the suicide attempt and thankef him for all he has done for me.
There is some other residual damage but nothing I can’t live with. And nothing I would die over.
Too many people to count, they would have been affected by my being euthanized. It’s a bad idea. We should stay away from it
God is truly great.
If there was a euthanasia van that went to people’s houses I am sure I would have called them.
RUN JOE! RUN!!!!!
OMG, my first glance saw “demecrats” not “dementia”. !
Abortion, murder, euthanasia -they're all the same-they just take place at different times.
My father died within 2 years of being diagnosed with progressive Alzheimer’s and dementia. This ruling is near pointless.
Some dementia patients live with dementia far longer.
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But I was touched by your message.
So, with dementia, you are unable to make rational decisions. Need I say more? I didn’t think so.
Once you start defining certain people as not deserving to live then you can just start adding classes of people you don’t like.
That logic worked well for the Nazis.
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