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Here is whats going on around the world to curb government run healthcare cost - A 2007 review of Euthanasia in the Netherlands, carried out by the Dutch government, revealed that out of the 3500 people who died through assisted suicide, 900 died by ‘involuntary’ euthanasia.
When and where will it end? - Furthermore, the extension of assisted suicide in Holland to include people with severe depression raises the question of how you stop the legalisation of assisted suicide for terminal patients from gradually expanding into assisted suicide on demand for anyone who simply feels they are no longer in control of their life.
Pulled from:http://www.the-vibe.co.uk/2009/08/11/tonykoutsoumbos/the-case-against-assisted-suicide/
What else do we have to look forward to?
The Dutch Way of Death
Socialized medicine helped turn doctors into killers.
By RICHARD MINITER
Saturday, April 28, 2001 12:01 A.M. EDT
AMSTERDAM--Seven years ago, Dr. Niko Wolswinkel was asked to kill someone.
On a Monday morning that he will never forget, the Dutch physician's patient, a 77-year old woman dying from cancer, asked him to kill her.
As a purely legal matter, he knew he could do it. While euthanasia had not yet been officially decriminalized in the Netherlands--that happened earlier this month--in practice, it had. A string of high-profile court rulings in the 1980s made it nearly impossible for prosecutors to win euthanasia cases, and in the few instances in which doctors were convicted, their sentences were suspended. The Royal Dutch Medical Association had publicly approved of euthanasia, which was common even then. All that stood between euthanasia and his patient, Dr. Wolswinkel knew, was his own willingness to comply.
On that day, he searched his conscience. "It is very hard to speak of these things," Dr. Wolswinkel said, with a quiet sadness in his voice. "Thirty years ago, this was something that people didn't ask for."
He couldn't bring himself to kill his patient; doctors are supposed to be healers, not killers. And, as a Christian, he believed it was wrong to take into his hands the power of God. A few days later, his patient died naturally.
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What makes you think that it will be different in the US?
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------------Most Dutchmen have come to a different conclusion; more than 80% favor "voluntary euthanasia," according to recent polls. The Dutch Parliament recently passed a measure completely decriminalizing euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. The Netherlands is now the first democratic nation on earth to permit, under law, doctors to kill their patients.
And they may be accustomed to doing so. Of the 130,000 Dutchmen who died in 1990, some 11,800 were killed or helped to die by their doctors, according to a 1991 report by the attorney general of the High Council of the Netherlands. (The 1991 report is the only complete report on euthanasia practices by the Dutch government.)
Some of these deaths are the classic cases cited by right-to-die advocates: A terminally ill patient, in agony, demanding to "die with dignity." But many are not. An estimated 5,981 people--an average of 16 per day--were killed by their doctors without their consent, according to the Dutch government report.
Many old people now fear Dutch hospitals. More than 10% of senior citizens who responded to a recent survey, which did not mention euthanasia, volunteered that they feared being killed by their doctors without their consent. One senior-citizen group printed up wallet cards that tell doctors that the cardholder opposes euthanasia.
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So in place of your AARP card we will carry our "Don't kill me bro!" card?
When and where will it end? - Furthermore, the extension of assisted suicide in Holland to include people with severe depression raises the question of how you stop the legalisation of assisted suicide for terminal patients from gradually expanding into assisted suicide on demand for anyone who simply feels they are no longer in control of their life.
Pulled from:http://www.the-vibe.co.uk/2009/08/11/tonykoutsoumbos/the-case-against-assisted-suicide/
What else do we have to look forward to?
The Dutch Way of Death
Socialized medicine helped turn doctors into killers.
By RICHARD MINITER
Saturday, April 28, 2001 12:01 A.M. EDT
AMSTERDAM--Seven years ago, Dr. Niko Wolswinkel was asked to kill someone.
On a Monday morning that he will never forget, the Dutch physician's patient, a 77-year old woman dying from cancer, asked him to kill her.
As a purely legal matter, he knew he could do it. While euthanasia had not yet been officially decriminalized in the Netherlands--that happened earlier this month--in practice, it had. A string of high-profile court rulings in the 1980s made it nearly impossible for prosecutors to win euthanasia cases, and in the few instances in which doctors were convicted, their sentences were suspended. The Royal Dutch Medical Association had publicly approved of euthanasia, which was common even then. All that stood between euthanasia and his patient, Dr. Wolswinkel knew, was his own willingness to comply.
On that day, he searched his conscience. "It is very hard to speak of these things," Dr. Wolswinkel said, with a quiet sadness in his voice. "Thirty years ago, this was something that people didn't ask for."
He couldn't bring himself to kill his patient; doctors are supposed to be healers, not killers. And, as a Christian, he believed it was wrong to take into his hands the power of God. A few days later, his patient died naturally.
-----
What makes you think that it will be different in the US?
Check this out...
------------Most Dutchmen have come to a different conclusion; more than 80% favor "voluntary euthanasia," according to recent polls. The Dutch Parliament recently passed a measure completely decriminalizing euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. The Netherlands is now the first democratic nation on earth to permit, under law, doctors to kill their patients.
And they may be accustomed to doing so. Of the 130,000 Dutchmen who died in 1990, some 11,800 were killed or helped to die by their doctors, according to a 1991 report by the attorney general of the High Council of the Netherlands. (The 1991 report is the only complete report on euthanasia practices by the Dutch government.)
Some of these deaths are the classic cases cited by right-to-die advocates: A terminally ill patient, in agony, demanding to "die with dignity." But many are not. An estimated 5,981 people--an average of 16 per day--were killed by their doctors without their consent, according to the Dutch government report.
Many old people now fear Dutch hospitals. More than 10% of senior citizens who responded to a recent survey, which did not mention euthanasia, volunteered that they feared being killed by their doctors without their consent. One senior-citizen group printed up wallet cards that tell doctors that the cardholder opposes euthanasia.
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So in place of your AARP card we will carry our "Don't kill me bro!" card?
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