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Rosebud77
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The drs here in Ireland do not take it.
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jeannetherese
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A Catholic homeschooling group in my area is very helpful in sharing names of Doctors who practice in accordance with Catholic teaching.
As we work to help others to understand the value of each human life, we might also seek to discuss the ways in which individual physicians are upholding or failing to uphold this teaching so that individuals and families will know of pro-life physician options.
Abuse in the name of mercy happens.
patientsrightscouncil.org/site/holland-background/
From the article:
"The data indicate that, despite long-standing, court-approved euthanasia guidelines developed to protect patients, abuse has become an accepted norm. According to the Remmelink Report, in 1990:
The Son Rise morning show had a speaker last week who spoke of 6,000 cases of involuntary euthenasia last year, noted by doctors in the past year. I believe it was in the Netherlands and hope someone more tech savvy than myself can track down the link.
As we work to help others to understand the value of each human life, we might also seek to discuss the ways in which individual physicians are upholding or failing to uphold this teaching so that individuals and families will know of pro-life physician options.
Abuse in the name of mercy happens.
patientsrightscouncil.org/site/holland-background/
From the article:
"The data indicate that, despite long-standing, court-approved euthanasia guidelines developed to protect patients, abuse has become an accepted norm. According to the Remmelink Report, in 1990:
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2,300 people died as the result of doctors killing them upon request (active, voluntary euthanasia).(7)
400 people died as a result of doctors providing them with the means to kill themselves (physician-assisted suicide).(8)
1,040 people (an average of 3 per day) died from involuntary euthanasia, meaning that doctors actively killed these patients without the patients’ knowledge or consent.(9)
14% of these patients were fully competent. (10)
72% had never given any indication that they would want their lives terminated. (11)
In 8% of the cases, doctors performed involuntary euthanasia despite the fact that they believed alternative options were still possible. (12)
In addition, 8,100 patients died as a result of doctors deliberately giving them overdoses of pain medication, not for the primary purpose of controlling pain, but to hasten the patient’s death. (13) In 61% of these cases (4,941 patients), the intentional overdose was given without the patient’s consent.(14)
According to the Remmelink Report, Dutch physicians deliberately and intentionally ended the lives of 11,840 people by lethal overdoses or injections–a figure which accounts for 9.1% of the annual overall death rate of 130,000 per year. The majority of all euthanasia deaths in Holland are involuntary deaths.
The Remmelink Report figures cited here do not include thousands of other cases, also reported in the study, in which life-sustaining treatment was withheld or withdrawn without the patient’s consent and with the intention of causing the patient’s death. (15) Nor do the figures include cases of involuntary euthanasia performed on disabled newborns, children with life-threatening conditions, or psychiatric patients. (16)
The most frequently cited reasons given for ending the lives of patients without their knowledge or consent were: “low quality of life,” “no prospect for improvement,” and “the family couldn’t take it anymore.”(17)
In 45% of cases involving hospitalized patients who were involuntarily euthanized, the patients’ families had no knowledge that their loved ones’ lives were deliberately terminated by doctors. (18)"
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jeannetherese
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From the study: Euthanasia Policy and
Practice in Belgium:Critical Observations and Suggestions for Improvement
Raphael Cohen-Almagor, D.Phil.
This portion of the report addresses the sense among many doctors that it is appropriate to suggest/encourage euthenasia to their patients
hull.ac.uk/rca/docs/articles/euthanasia-belgium.pdf
“The first Dutch comprehensive study on end-of-life decisions shows that 36 percent of specialists, 24 percent of home physicians, and 65 percent of general practitioners believed that there may be situations in which the physician should raise euthanasia as a possibility with the patient.78
The 1990 prospective study shows that the initiative for discussion about the action to be performed at the end of life came from the patient in only about half of the cases.79
Van der Maas and Van der Wal estimated that of all the cases of euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and ending of life without the patient’s explicit request, the physician initi-
ated the discussion in 21 percent of cases.80
Another study showed that 54 percent of physicians believed that in certain situations it was the physician’s professional duty to suggest euthanasia as an option to the patient.81
Indeed, this was one of my concerns when I did my independent study in the Netherlands.82
Neither the physicians nor the study’s investigators addressed the extent to which the voluntariness of the process may be compromised by suggesting the option of euthanasia to the patient.83
A 1998 study in the city of Hasselt, Flanders, had shown that physicians’ attitudes toward euthanasia are clearly related to end-of-life decisions, and that physicians who oppose euthanasia refrain from using lethal drugs whereas physicians who are approving of euthanasia may resort to the practice.84
Evidently physicians have great influence over their patients.
The physician’s role is commonly understood as a healing role.85
…] when euthanasia is accentuated, the emphasis on euthanasia might undermine the patient’s voluntary wishes.
Thus it is argued that physicians’ suggestions constitute a powerful influence on the patients’ choices of treatment. The patients’ choices may reflect their physicians’ attitude. The patient, who trusts the long-time GP, might feel that he is being condemned to death and that he is wasting the doctor’s time. When all is said and done, all the physician has to offer him is death. Putting emphasis on euthanasia by the physician might undermine the will to live and to explore further avenues for treatment. Therefore any reluctance shown by patients in regard to this issue should be honoured and respected.86”
Practice in Belgium:Critical Observations and Suggestions for Improvement
Raphael Cohen-Almagor, D.Phil.
This portion of the report addresses the sense among many doctors that it is appropriate to suggest/encourage euthenasia to their patients
hull.ac.uk/rca/docs/articles/euthanasia-belgium.pdf
“The first Dutch comprehensive study on end-of-life decisions shows that 36 percent of specialists, 24 percent of home physicians, and 65 percent of general practitioners believed that there may be situations in which the physician should raise euthanasia as a possibility with the patient.78
The 1990 prospective study shows that the initiative for discussion about the action to be performed at the end of life came from the patient in only about half of the cases.79
Van der Maas and Van der Wal estimated that of all the cases of euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and ending of life without the patient’s explicit request, the physician initi-
ated the discussion in 21 percent of cases.80
Another study showed that 54 percent of physicians believed that in certain situations it was the physician’s professional duty to suggest euthanasia as an option to the patient.81
Indeed, this was one of my concerns when I did my independent study in the Netherlands.82
Neither the physicians nor the study’s investigators addressed the extent to which the voluntariness of the process may be compromised by suggesting the option of euthanasia to the patient.83
A 1998 study in the city of Hasselt, Flanders, had shown that physicians’ attitudes toward euthanasia are clearly related to end-of-life decisions, and that physicians who oppose euthanasia refrain from using lethal drugs whereas physicians who are approving of euthanasia may resort to the practice.84
Evidently physicians have great influence over their patients.
The physician’s role is commonly understood as a healing role.85
…] when euthanasia is accentuated, the emphasis on euthanasia might undermine the patient’s voluntary wishes.
Thus it is argued that physicians’ suggestions constitute a powerful influence on the patients’ choices of treatment. The patients’ choices may reflect their physicians’ attitude. The patient, who trusts the long-time GP, might feel that he is being condemned to death and that he is wasting the doctor’s time. When all is said and done, all the physician has to offer him is death. Putting emphasis on euthanasia by the physician might undermine the will to live and to explore further avenues for treatment. Therefore any reluctance shown by patients in regard to this issue should be honoured and respected.86”
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abucs
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Fair point.If children can give consent to that - what’s next?
I think perhaps many people asking to die with dignity have to think a little bit more about learning how to live in dignity.
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