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Title: Euthanasia Used For 4.5 Percent of Deaths in the Netherlands
Post by: rangerrebew on August 03, 2017, 07:18:30 pm

Euthanasia Used For 4.5 Percent of Deaths in the Netherlands
 

By MARIA CHENG Published on August 3, 2017

LONDON (AP) — Euthanasia has become a common way to die in the Netherlands, accounting for 4.5 percent of deaths, according to researchers who say requests are increasing from people who aren’t terminally ill.

In 2002, the Netherlands became the first country in the world that made it legal for doctors to help people die. Both euthanasia, where doctors actively kill patients, and assisted suicide, where physicians prescribe patients a lethal dose of drugs, are allowed. People must be “suffering unbearably” with no hope of relief — but their condition does not have to be fatal.

https://stream.org/euthanasia-used-4-5-percent-deaths-netherlands/

Title: Re: Euthanasia Used For 4.5 Percent of Deaths in the Netherlands
Post by: guitar4jesus on August 03, 2017, 07:23:43 pm

Good grief.  **nononono*

Title: Re: Euthanasia Used For 4.5 Percent of Deaths in the Netherlands
Post by: Oceander on August 03, 2017, 07:40:49 pm

That's a lot. 

Title: Re: Euthanasia Used For 4.5 Percent of Deaths in the Netherlands
Post by: dfwgator on August 03, 2017, 07:42:36 pm

Like Abortion, Euthanasia was supposed to be "safe and rare."


Riiiiiiiiight.

Title: Re: Euthanasia Used For 4.5 Percent of Deaths in the Netherlands
Post by: Fishrrman on August 04, 2017, 01:50:13 am

Full text of Kurt Vonnegut's prophetic "Welcome to the Monkey House":
http://www.vrdiscovery.com/scifimed/MonkStry.pdf

"Going home" from Soylent Green:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hlke9KsNA5s/UjZwt_3op-I/AAAAAAAAJaw/n4p3QflIKAk/s1600/soylentnature.png)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOV8mBjHHYg

Title: Re: Euthanasia Used For 4.5 Percent of Deaths in the Netherlands
Post by: Suppressed on August 04, 2017, 01:32:19 pm

Only about half of requests are approved.  What business does The State have in telling people what is right for them?