Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia. 😱 [4/21/20]https://t.co/SGXlAoR2GP— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) May 11, 2020
The National Review
written by Wesley J. Smith
Tuesday April 21, 2020
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.The ruling is a landmark in Dutch euthanasia legislation which up to now had required patients to confirm euthanasia requests. This had not been considered possible for mentally incapacitated patients like advanced dementia sufferers.“A doctor can carry out an (earlier) written request for euthanasia from people with advanced dementia,” the Supreme Court said in a summary of its decision.
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. Moreover, the patient had also stated in her instructions that she wanted to decide “when” the time for death had come — which she never did. The termination “choice” was made by the doctor and/or family in violation of the patient’s advance directive.
But why would the Dutch Supreme Court let inconvenient facts get in the way of furthering the Netherlands’ ever-expanding national killing policy that already permits infanticide, joint geriatric euthanasia of married couples, termination of the mentally ill, conjoining euthanasia with organ harvesting, and the lethal injections of people with disabilities?
Side note. I've a friend from Holland whose family immigrated to US in '90s due to pressure in Netherlands on older folks to request euthenasia to relieve $$ burden on families :/( the new "coming to America"— Dmtreister Nationalist Subsidiarity (@deb_treister) January 7, 2019
And you can bet the farm NY and CA will lead the nation in assisting and even encouraging euthenasia. They look at Netherlands all doe-eyed.— SCV Tech (@lahanlon) January 25, 2019
‘Practical Euthenasia.’— Struth (@Struth92701547) April 1, 2020
It is financially ‘practical’ to leave them for dead is a form of euthanasia.
So sad for the Netherlands🇳🇱.
Australia🇦🇺 received approximately 100,000 Dutch migrants post WW2.
They’ve been an asset, blessing Australia in many ways, founding many ✝️schools.
The Guardian, UK
written by AFP staff
Tuesday April 21, 2020
Doctors in the Netherlands are able to carry out euthanasia on patients with severe dementia without fear of prosecution even if the patient no longer expresses an explicit wish to die, the country’s highest court has ruled.
The supreme court’s decision followed a landmark case last year in which a doctor was acquitted of wrongdoing for euthanising a woman in 2016 with severe Alzheimer’s who had requested the procedure before her condition deteriorated.
The case caused controversy in the Netherlands because the unnamed woman had to be restrained by her family as she was euthanised, having been given a sedative in her coffee beforehand.
Prosecutors accused the doctor of going through with the euthanasia without properly consulting her client, saying the 74-year-old woman might have changed her mind about dying.
Lower Dutch courts acquitted the doctor of wrongdoing and prosecutors dropped the charges. The case was referred to the supreme court for a legal clarification “in the interest of the law”.
The Hague-based court ruled: “A physician may carry out a written request beforehand for euthanasia in people with advanced dementia.”
But it would have to be under the strict rules for euthanasia, including that the patient must have “unbearable and endless suffering” and that at least two doctors must have agreed to carry out the procedure.
The patient must also have requested euthanasia before they could “no longer express their will as a result of advanced dementia”.
Tuesday’s verdict underscored similar judgments in the lower courts, which also agreed that the 64-year-old doctor followed the correct procedures prescribed by the government.
The case was seen as an important test of the law in the Netherlands, which legalised euthanasia in 2002, followed shortly afterwards by neighbouring Belgium.
Here is my take on this grotesque situation in the Netherlands. The woman obviously didn't want to die because she was fighting to stay alive. What if her family wanted their inheritance sooner rather than later or hated her and simply stated she had dementia to get her killed? And the doctor getting paid by them followed her family's instructions. This is legal homicide. Who is protecting this lady's life? Apparently no one cared about her life. (emphasis mine)
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