Saturday, May 14, 2016

"Dutch people given the right to euthanasia because of mental, not terminal, illness"

Daily Mail:  Helena told the Mail: 'Jackie is only 45 but dearly wants to die. Our family believes she must be allowed to do so. She approached an end-of-life clinic and it has put her on the waiting list for an appointment.

'Her mood has brightened since. She knows there is an end in sight to her suffering and this has given her comfort.'....

Significantly, many of the mentally-ill patients had already been rejected for euthanasia by their own GPs. He explained: 'If someone has cancer and the prognosis is poor, doctors will shorten their suffering by euthanasia.

'But if you cannot see what a patient is dying of, or know when they will die — it could be many years ahead if the person is mentally ill — then the doctors find it more difficult to decide whether to end a life.'

So Pleiter's team offers to fill this gap. He got into the right-to-die business when his mother suffered a stroke at 80 and was left paralysed down one half of her body. She had always told him that if such an eventuality happened, she wanted to be helped to die.

4 comments:

edutcher said...

This, of course, was the SS remedy.

That sound you hear is Heinrich Himmler laughing hysterically, somewhere in

The Twilight Zone.

ricpic said...

"ONE MORE REASON WE SHOULD BE MORE LIKE EUROPE!" scream the Schmendriks.

Trooper York said...

Dutch people got no reason
Dutch people got no reason
Dutch people got no reason
To live

They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear wooden shoes
On their nasty little feet

Well, I don't want no Dutch people
Don't want no Dutch people
Don't want no Dutch people
Round here

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Dutch are tall and free thinking.

If they want to off with themselves - what the hay?