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Dutch Euthanasia Doctors May Now Kill Perfectly Healthy Adults
LifeSiteNews.com via WorldNetDaily ^ | 01-11-05 | Unkown

Posted on 01/13/2005 7:06:20 AM PST by Houmatt

The Royal Dutch Medical Association has concluded, after a three-year investigation, that Dutch doctors ought to be able to kill patients who are not ill but who are judged to be "suffering through living."

The decision contradicts the Dutch Supreme Court that ruled in 2002 that patients may only request euthanasia if they have a "classifiable physical or mental condition," and not if they are merely "tired of life." The law however, does not require a medical condition, but only that a patient must be "suffering hopelessly and unbearably." Pro-life activists have warned that such ambiguous language is an open door for new interpretations that would make the law a license to kill.

The new report says many Dutch doctors believe some cases of "suffering through living" could be judged "unbearable and hopeless."

Jos Dijkhuis, the emeritus professor of clinical psychology who led the study said, "In more than half of cases we considered, doctors were not confronted with a classifiable disease. In practice the medical domain of doctors is far broader … We see a doctor's task is to reduce suffering, therefore we can't exclude these cases in advance. We must now look further to see if we can draw a line and if so where."

Mira de Vries, of the Association for Medical and Therapeutic Self-Determination, a pro-suicide group, pointed out that the law exists only to protect doctors from prosecution for homicide. She commented on the British Medical Journal's forum page, "By claiming that the medical domain of doctors is far broader, and includes the reduction of suffering unrelated to classifiable and measurable somatic illness, physicians are proposing to redefine medicine, and vastly expand its already inflated territory."

Henk Jochemsen, director of the anti-euthanasia Lindeboom Institute for Medical Ethics, said the report gave the message that, "we as a society should say to people who feel their life has lost meaning: right you had better go away."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; euthanasia; genocide; medicine; murder; nazirevival; netherlands; psychology
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To: Houmatt

I fifty years the elderly ethnic Dutch population of childless pensioners will be judged to be suffering unbearably by the young Muslim majority because they do not take to heart the teachings of Allah...


21 posted on 01/13/2005 7:28:30 AM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: marty60
NAZI PIGS

Precisely, I expect France to surrender to the Royal Dutch Medical Association any day now.

22 posted on 01/13/2005 7:28:50 AM PST by Petronski (Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?)
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To: Houmatt
The Royal Dutch Medical Association has concluded, after a three-year investigation, that Dutch doctors ought to be able to kill patients who are not ill but who are judged to be "suffering through living."

Sounds like this category covers democrats.......

23 posted on 01/13/2005 7:29:37 AM PST by cbkaty
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To: starfish923

When the state is responsible for the excess expense of keeping you alive, the state is going to want you dead. It's just business, nothing personal...


24 posted on 01/13/2005 7:31:31 AM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: StoneGiant

I was thinking perzackly the same thing as you, then I saw your kitty pix. Took me ten minutes to recover from laughing so hard.

Humor aside, these folks are demented. Perhaps the doctors might take their own medicine since they too, seem to suffer from such "sad, meaningless lives".

I have to wonder what is in the Dutch psyche that leads to this kind of twisted thinking.


25 posted on 01/13/2005 7:34:35 AM PST by miele man
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To: Houmatt

Brave new world...


27 posted on 01/13/2005 7:48:31 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: Houmatt
If a mentally competent adult is under such physical suffering that life is unbearable, he should have the right to end his life. If for some reason he’s unable to do so, he should have the right to hire another to assist him.

I think that’s the most reasonable policy, and a no assisted suicide under any conditions policy is purely religiously founded, unsupportable by reason beyond wild speculation and is not consistent with the US Constitution.

28 posted on 01/13/2005 7:50:01 AM PST by elfman2 ("As goes Fallujah, so goes central Iraq and so goes the entire country" -Col Coleman, USMC ,4/2004)
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To: Houmatt
[The Royal Dutch Medical Association has concluded, after a three-year investigation, that Dutch doctors ought to be able to kill patients who are not ill but who are judged to be "suffering through living" "costing the state too much in medical care expenses." ]
29 posted on 01/13/2005 7:51:39 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: Houmatt

Next step: kill the unemployed.


30 posted on 01/13/2005 7:53:25 AM PST by Alouette (Abu Mazen: Arafat after a shower and shave)
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To: Enterprise
LOL!

Add Democrats!

31 posted on 01/13/2005 7:54:50 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: elfman2
You do understand there is no way I could possibly agree with you.

To be honest, I also checked to see when you joined in case you were trolling.

32 posted on 01/13/2005 7:55:34 AM PST by Houmatt (Thank you, Terri, for showing me I had a heart. Because you broke it.)
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To: Houmatt

This would be a prime opportunity to appoing Tom "Deeply Saddened" Daschle as Ambassador to Holland...


33 posted on 01/13/2005 7:55:51 AM PST by adam_az (UN out of the US! - http://www.moveamericaforward.org/?Page=Petition)
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To: kjenerette

...reading.


34 posted on 01/13/2005 7:56:26 AM PST by Van Jenerette (Our Republic - If we can keep it!)
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To: Houmatt

No hope. No revulsion at the thought of lost life. No desire to aid in a better future. Sounds like clinical depression is the norm with these doctors, too. When you lose God, you lose everything.


35 posted on 01/13/2005 7:57:26 AM PST by GVnana (If I had a Buckhead moment would I know it?)
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To: Houmatt

Will this become a medical specialty?


36 posted on 01/13/2005 7:59:06 AM PST by verity (The Liberal Media is America's Enemy)
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To: gridlock
When the state is responsible for the excess expense of keeping you alive, the state is going to want you dead. It's just business, nothing personal...

Bingo. This is the logical destination of socialized medicine.

37 posted on 01/13/2005 7:59:09 AM PST by Dan Cooper
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To: Houmatt
" You do understand there is no way I could possibly agree with you. "

I understand.

38 posted on 01/13/2005 7:59:12 AM PST by elfman2 ("As goes Fallujah, so goes central Iraq and so goes the entire country" -Col Coleman, USMC ,4/2004)
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To: Houmatt
I never, ever thought something like this would happen in my lifetime.

The inexorable logic was there, but I have a hard time believing this myself. We keep sinking further and further.

39 posted on 01/13/2005 7:59:35 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: starfish923
It just seems as if they want to clear their hospices and sick beds of expensive, long term, terminally ill patients.

Do you think maybe that seriously ill people will be reluctant to seek medical treatment?

40 posted on 01/13/2005 8:00:47 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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