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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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I never, ever thought something like this would happen in my lifetime.

I hate being proved wrong.

1 posted on 01/13/2005 7:06:21 AM PST by Houmatt
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To: Houmatt
Tick, tick, tick . . .
2 posted on 01/13/2005 7:08:38 AM PST by haywoodwebb (2004 The Year of the Black Conservative Renaissance.)
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To: Houmatt
I wonder when they will start euthanizing convicted murderers?
3 posted on 01/13/2005 7:11:36 AM PST by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: Houmatt

Doctor Mengele laughs


4 posted on 01/13/2005 7:12:10 AM PST by GeronL (I am NOT the real bin Laden)
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To: Houmatt

Wow!


5 posted on 01/13/2005 7:14:19 AM PST by stevio (Let Freedom Ring!)
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To: CzarNicky
"The law however, does not require a medical condition, but only that a patient must be "suffering hopelessly and unbearably."

Maureen Dowd - run for cover!

6 posted on 01/13/2005 7:15:24 AM PST by Enterprise ("Dance with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight" - Islam compels you!)
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To: Houmatt

It looks like the life in the Netherlands has over last decades become much more stressful than before, judging from the prominence given to euthanasia movement there. Has there previously been an unusually high suicide rate?


7 posted on 01/13/2005 7:16:35 AM PST by GSlob
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To: Houmatt

This is just wrong, on so many levels.


8 posted on 01/13/2005 7:18:29 AM PST by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: Houmatt

So this would allow a treatable patient with depression to contract with a physician to kill him (her) when the suicidal intent is merely a symptom of the condition?


9 posted on 01/13/2005 7:19:32 AM PST by johniegrad
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To: Houmatt

Really makes me sad for the future of mankind.


10 posted on 01/13/2005 7:20:37 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: Houmatt

This is insane! I can't even say anything else about it.


11 posted on 01/13/2005 7:21:02 AM PST by arizonarachel (countdown to wedding day: T-minus 156 days & counting!)
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To: cpforlife.org

Todeskultur ping.


12 posted on 01/13/2005 7:21:14 AM PST by Petronski (Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?)
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To: Houmatt

NAZI PIGS


13 posted on 01/13/2005 7:21:34 AM PST by marty60
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To: Houmatt
It just seems as if they want to clear their hospices and sick beds of expensive, long term, terminally ill patients. It doesn't sound like compassion at all...despite all the double speak about mercy, compassion and "quality of life."

What the HELL do they know about the end of a life? None of them has been through it. It is a mystery.
The relative morality never comes through more falsely and empty than when the conversation turns to euthenasia.

It's good to see other Dutch speak out against it.

14 posted on 01/13/2005 7:23:10 AM PST by starfish923
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To: Houmatt

bump


15 posted on 01/13/2005 7:23:31 AM PST by Kennesaw
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Well, now we have an option for all those suffering "blue-state" folks still bemoaning the election of George Bush.  Instead of immigrating to Canada, they can immigrate to The Netherlands.

And put an end to their sad, meaningless lives.

 

 

 

16 posted on 01/13/2005 7:23:37 AM PST by StoneGiant
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To: Houmatt
Heh.
17 posted on 01/13/2005 7:24:39 AM PST by Nathan-1729 (They can because they think they can.)
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So if your life isn't peaches and cream and you're stupid enough to say so, they can off you? As others have said, it's a logical extension of abortion, euthanasia, just one more tumble down that slippery slope. There goes the human race.


18 posted on 01/13/2005 7:24:43 AM PST by hershey
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Hire a doctor instead of a hitman to get rid of someone who's bugging you. How low can the Dutch medical racket go? They make the Nazi doctors look like professionals.


19 posted on 01/13/2005 7:25:51 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: GSlob

Well when they have a society that apparently has developed a complete amoral view of life, suicide might look good. Just think, if someone is not on the top of the intellectual or societal scale deem acceptable by the ELITE, you will be incouraged to visit the local suicide center.


20 posted on 01/13/2005 7:28:20 AM PST by marty60
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