Assisted suicide allowed in Swiss hospital as of Jan. 1

[Matt25]

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Lausanne University Hospital has decided to permit assisted suicides, effective Jan. 1, and now other leading Swiss hospitals are also discussing permitting the procedure, reported Doctors For Life in a press release issued yesterday. Though Swiss law initially did not allow doctors to kill their patients, the practice of euthanasia has been gradually extended from private groups into the public health care systems…

In the Netherlands, doctors have been allowed to practice euthanasia since 1973. While Dutch laws initially required that euthanasia be limited to the sickest patients, it has been steadily redefined, the press release pointed out. As a result, Dutch doctors now legally kill people with terminal or chronic illness, disabilities or depression on demand. Furthermore, repeated studies sponsored by the Dutch government show that doctors kill a significant number of their patients every year as a result of involuntary euthanasia, the medical association reported.

 

[Crow]

The weak and feeble minded demand their right to die. The strong and the faithful will survive.

i pray that I am strong enough to die with dignity when the time comes; like JP the Great - forever my papa.

 

[cove]

My husband has a business associate who lives in Belgium. Last summer he relayed the story to my husband of his sisters assisted suicide.

His sister had a recurrance of cancer and chose not to seek chemo therapy again. Her outlook was bleak but I do not think hopeless. She just did not want to suffer through chemo again. She called her brother whom she did not talk to that often to let him know and he contacted her daughter. The next day he went to her home sat and chatted with her for awhile, said their goodbyes and a doctor administered the drugs that ended her life. It was a chilling and rather strange story.