Posted on 06/09/2010 10:18:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A high proportion of deaths classed as euthanasia in Belgium involved patients who did not ask for their lives to be ended, a study found.
More than 100 nurses admitted to researchers that they had taken part in 'terminations without request or consent'.
Although euthanasia is legal in Belgium, it is governed by strict rules which state it should be carried out only by a doctor and with the patient's permission.
The disturbing revelation - which shows that nurses regularly go well beyond their legal role - raises fears that were assisted suicides allowed in Britain, they could never be properly regulated.
Since its legalisation eight years ago, euthanasia now accounts for 2 per cent of deaths in Belgium - or around 2,000 a year.
The researchers found that a fifth of nurses admitted being involved in the assisted suicide of a patient.
But nearly half of these - 120 of 248 - also said there was no consent.
'The nurses in our study operated beyond the legal margins of their profession,' said the report's authors in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
It is likely many nurses ' under-reported' their involvement for fear of admitting an illegal activity, the study said.
But it added that many were probably acting according to their patients' wishes, 'even if there was no explicit request'.
Last night, Dr Peter Saunders, director of the Care Not Killing campaign in Britain, said: 'We should take a warning from this that wherever you draw the line, people will go up to it and beyond it.'
'Once you have legalised voluntary euthanasia, involuntary euthanasia will inevitably follow,' he added.
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How do they justify that? THEY decide the patient will be better off? And how is it assisted suicide if the patient does not consent?
That is crazy, they should be charged with murder.
"Involuntary euthanasia"?! Isn't that doublespeak for murder?
They are Liberal Gods unto themselves, they are right, we are wrong, if only we would visit a library and weren’t so stupid we would see their Genius /sarc
DEATH PANELS ANYONE? cus they’re coming.
How about charging them with murder?
Then almost half the nurses need to be charged with murder. Apparently in Europe, you can take the nurse out of the concentration camp, but you can’t take the concentration camp out of the nurse. They have the genetics for that kind of thing.
Everybody wants to play God these days.
It is not assisted suicide. It is assisted homicide.
The Culture of Death has pulled the plug on the moral code.
what the hell are you talking about?....you're condemning as Nazis an entire profession?..based on one annoymous report from a leftist country?...
“probably acting according to their patients’ wishes, ‘even if there was no explicit request’”
Fake but accurate killings now.
I’ll never forget a snippet from an article I read in the WSJ at least fifteen years ago ( paraphrasing ):
“...in Holland and Belgium, the very old, and the very sick fear being sent to a hospital because they are afraid of being euthanized against their will...”
This is a very old evil.
Oh, Im sure the govt death panels will do their utmost to kill off as many as possible. However, assisted suicide (aka euthanasia) is already here. Generally think theres little stomach for it exc in liberal infested fringe states. Death by omission and commission. The democrat party is the party of death and destruction.
Ping.
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