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Elderly woman said, “I don’t want to die” By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A Netherlands Regional euthanasia Review Committee has decided that a forced euthanasia done on a woman with dementia, where the doctor sedated the...
'Completed life' euthanasia will soon be legalised in the Netherlands By Michael Cook In the 19th Century a statue of Tanonius Marcellinus, consul of Campania (now the region around Naples) was unearthed in the town of Benevento. It bore a remarkable inscription, one...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Dutch government has decided to expand their euthanasia law to include people who are not physically or psychologically sick but who believe that their "life is completed." According to the...
By Wesley J. Smith Netherlander doctors kill terminally ill, disabled, elderly, Alzheimer’s patients, and mentally/ill depressed age 12 and up. They also commit infanticide of dying and disabled infants, even though that is not technically legal. Now, medicalized...
By Wesley J. Smith The Netherlands, along with Belgians, permit organ harvesting to be conjoined to voluntary euthanasia. But now, Netherlands is moving to a system in which everyone is an organ donor unless they specifically opt out. From the Dutch News story: MPs on...
By Wesley J. Smith The Netherlands considers itself oh, so rational. Its laws around controversial social issues involve the concept of harm reduction. Harm reduction? Once the country accepted killing as an answer to suffering, it was sure to include the mentally...
By Alex Schadenberg, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. On May 14 The Daily Mail reported that a 45-year-old Dutch woman known as “Jackie,” was approved for euthanasia based on psychiatric issues related to sexual abuse. News about this recent case comes after the...
Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The 2015 Netherlands euthanasia report that was recently released states that there were 5,561 reported euthanasia deaths in 2015, up from 5,306 in 2014. In addition, there were 109 reported...
By Michael Cook Several Dutch and Belgian doctors have proposed legal reforms to increase the popularity of combining euthanasia and organ donation in the Netherlands and Belgium. Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics, they report valuable unpublished information...
By Michael Cook A former member of a euthanasia review board in the Netherlands has written a stinging attack on the policy he once formed part of. Dr. Theo de Boer, professor of health care ethics at the Theological University in Kampen and associate professor of...