Posted on 04/12/2024 8:54:46 AM PDT by xoxox
The president of Belgium’s largest health care fund has promoted euthanasia as a solution for the country’s aging population problem.
Luc Van Gorp, head of Christian Mutuality (CM), pointed out that the number of people over 80 in Belgium will double up to 1.2 million by 2050, putting enormous financial pressure on the health care system and insurance companies.
According to De Specialist, Van Gorp said the problem cannot be solved with more money and called for “a radically different approach.”
“Doctors and other health professionals are now doing their utmost to make everyone live longer, but for what purpose? Living longer is not an end in itself, is it? It must first of all be about the question: how long can I live with quality [of life].”
“What about the category of older people who receive maximum care, but who still do not have the quality of life they want? That question is asked far too little,” he stated.
Van Gorp said that in addition to the current euthanasia law, there “should also be a softer form for people who feel that their lives are complete,” adding that “Many elderly people are tired of life.”
Instead of calling the process suicide, which has negative connotations, he “would rather call it: giving life back.”
“I know it is sensitive, but we really have to dare to have that debate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
Who didn’t see that coming?
I know I was yapping about “perverse incentives” back when they started floating “Hillarycare.”
Absolute worst people on the planet. Belgians.
Wait until the health insurance companies and life insurance companies start colluding on the issue.
You first, Luc Van Gorp.
FOAD.
Aktion T4
That boy needs to be the first in line. I only saw the picture of him and I could tell he’s a piece of meat with two eyes that really stinks.
What a strong, powerful, visionary executive. Just like Steve Jobs. Thinks outside the box.
Meanwhile, his counterpart in a Belgian life insurance company is pushing for a law that would force every hospital to keep its elderly patients on life support until the age of 150. :-P
he “would rather call it: giving life back.”
It was determined by the Allied powers after WWII that the German T-4 euthanasia program was just a thin disguise to cover up mass murder. Now here it is again in Belgium because they didn’t learn squat from the Nazis.
‘Ol’ Luc himself looks like a pile of meat that’s starting to smell.
Thinking he should go first.
Setting an example is so important in todays culture
You beat me to it. LOL.
>> Christian Mutuality
No kidding? THat’s what they call their globalist corporation?
Not everyone I dislike is Hitler (cue fake book cover).
But this guy is.
Or they learned quite well.
It seems that one would have to be an atheist, believing that there is no purpose at all to human life, to think like this.
he’d old enough now, and should lead by example-
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