The legalisation of euthansia in Holland has resulted in a steep decline in medical care for the terminally ill. Speaking about the phenomenan Dr Els Borst, the former Health Minister who guided the law through Dutch parliament, admits that it was brought in “far too early” without adequately protecting those people who wished to die naturally. Dr Anne-Marie The who interviewed the former hospital doctor in a book about the history of euthanasia concluded that palliative care in Holland had become so inadequate that patients were often asking for euthanasia “out of fear”.
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December 11th, 2009 at 1:55 am
This is FRIGHTENING! We are repeatedly told that if assisted suicide was legalised there would be adequate safeguards to protect vulnerable people. We are told to look at Holland to see that it can be done. And here the Dutch admit that their safeguards have utterly failed. Now their vulnerable elderly and disabled citizens are practically forced to accept euthanasia because end-of-life care has become so inadequate.
There is only one way to protect the huge majority of vulnerable people who don’t want to live in a society that believes they’re ‘better off dead’: do not legalise euthanasia in any form.
January 11th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
this is one of the reasons why we shouldn’t legalise this. Lots of people go to die just because it is there for people to choose. They will just decide to do it when they feel upset with things not because they want to.