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By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Update. This story was posted on April 4. The Guardian reported that last week Zoraya Ter Bek “received the final approval last week for assisted dying under a law passed in the country in 2002.”...
She suffers from an eating disorder, recurrent depression, autism, and mild learning difficulties. But to suggest suicide as a cure to these problems is as good as giving up on her.
By Wesley J. Smith It used to be considered a tragedy when elderly couples committed joint suicide. Now, in more and more places, it’s celebrated. A former Dutch prime minister and his wife had themselves killed at the same time by a doctor. And instead of being...
By John Stonestreet and Timothy D Padgett As of February 1, a new law in the Netherlands extends “mercy killing” to children of any age. Supporters claim the law will only apply to five or 10 extremely rare cases a year, “to children in the terminal phase, who suffer...
By Michael Cook The results of professional opinion polls on social issues have to be taken with a pinch of salt, unless they indicate huge voter preferences. However, the Netherlands provides an example of huge voter preference. According to NL Times, a...
By Wesley J. Smith Once a society embraces killing as an answer to suffering, the “suffering” that qualifies for termination never stops expanding. The Dutch have decades of experience with this. Since lethal-injection euthanasia became decriminalized — and then,...
By Michael Cook A Dutch court has sentenced a man to 3½ years in prison for providing contacts with a lethal suicide drug. The man, identified only as Alex S. was convicted of helping at least ten people. All were over the age of 18. However, he sold the...
"The disciplinary committee condemns the behavior of a healthcare provider but that the person can continue to practice their profession." By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Alex Schadenberg An unnamed psychiatrist in the...
By Wesley J. Smith Joint suicides by elderly couples used to be considered a tragedy. In the Netherlands, doctors killing elderly couples together is a considered medical treatment (Belgium too, and at least once in Canada). Last year there were nine such killings....
By Michael Cook Euthanasia is becoming so popular in the Netherlands that the country’s only dedicated death clinic cannot keep up with the demand. Steven Pleiter, director of the Levenseindekliniek in Amsterdam, told the Guardian that he needs to double the number of...