Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Canada’s Justice Minister, David Lametti was reported in a Radio Canada interview that he is considering extending euthanasia to teenagers and people who are incompetent but made a previous request. Lametti, who voted against Bill C-14 in 2016 because it didn’t go far enough, has been ordered by PrimeContinue reading “Canada’s Justice Minister is considering expanding euthanasia to include teenagers and incompetent people.”
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Euthanasia of people with dementia. Medpage “ethics consult”
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Last week, Medpage Today posted an “Ethics Consult” concerning euthanasia of a person with dementia. The consult was based on the euthanasia death of a Dutch woman who requested euthanasia in her advanced directive, but then resisted and said NO at the time of the euthanasia. The physician putContinue reading “Euthanasia of people with dementia. Medpage “ethics consult””
Dutch prosecutors ask Supreme Court to clarify euthanasia rules for people with dementia.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Prosecutors in the Netherlands have asked the Supreme Court to clarify the euthanasia law, after a court in the Hague expanded the euthanasia law by acquitting a doctor who euthanized a woman with dementia who resisted the euthanasia injection. Dutch court expands euthanasia law by acquitting doctor who euthanizedContinue reading “Dutch prosecutors ask Supreme Court to clarify euthanasia rules for people with dementia.”
Belgian doctor charged with murder of four patients.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. CHR van Hoei Hospital A doctor in Belgium has been charged with murder in the deaths of four patients in the palliative care department of the CHR van Hoei Hospital. An article published by Nieuwsblad.be stated (google translated): The court has suspected a doctor from Tihange of four murders. TheContinue reading “Belgian doctor charged with murder of four patients.”
Dutch ‘Forced Euthanasia’ Doctor Cleared of Charges
This article was published by National Review online on September 11, 2019. By Wesley Smith: I could have told you this would happen. A Dutch doctor who lethally injected a dementia patient, has been cleared of criminal charges. Euthanizing dementia patients isn’t against the law in Netherlands if the patient expressed a desire to dieContinue reading “Dutch ‘Forced Euthanasia’ Doctor Cleared of Charges”
Dutch court expands euthanasia law by acquitting doctor who euthanized a patient with dementia without effective consent.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. A court in the Hague Netherlands has expanded the euthanasia law by acquitting a doctor who euthanized a woman with dementia who resisted the injection and said No. The case concerned the euthanasia of a woman with dementia who resisted so the doctor sedated the woman by putting drugsContinue reading “Dutch court expands euthanasia law by acquitting doctor who euthanized a patient with dementia without effective consent.”
Dutch doctor on trial for euthanasia without effective consent. Punishment is not being proposed.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The trial of the doctor who lethally injected (euthanasia) an incompetent woman without effective consent is happening this week in the Hague Netherlands. The case concerns the euthanasia of a woman with dementia who resisted so the doctor sedated the woman by secretly putting drugs in her coffee. The womanContinue reading “Dutch doctor on trial for euthanasia without effective consent. Punishment is not being proposed.”
Dutch doctors pressured in euthanasia requests
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The British Medical Journal published a study “Pressure in dealing with requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide. Experiences of general practitioners.” The study interviewed 22 General Practitioners and indepth interviews with 15 General Practitioners concluded that: GPs experienced in dealing with EAS requests were revealed: (1) emotional blackmail, (2) controlContinue reading “Dutch doctors pressured in euthanasia requests”
Three Netherlands euthanasia deaths are being investigated.
Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An article, on June 23, by Senay Boztas, for the Guardian outlines several euthanasia deaths that are being investigated or prosecuted in the Netherlands. EPC supporters will remember the case of the euthanasia death of a woman with dementia, in 2016, who resisted the lethal injection. Boztas explains: …in August, a DutchContinue reading “Three Netherlands euthanasia deaths are being investigated.”
Dr William Reichel: Rejecting assisted suicide is a wise decision.
(Sadly the Maine Governor signed the assisted suicide bill). I have studied assisted suicide since 1984, mostly at Georgetown University Medical Center. I am a Past President of the American Geriatrics Society and I have published a number of papers on this subject, the most important one in The Lancet in 1989. I also discussContinue reading “Dr William Reichel: Rejecting assisted suicide is a wise decision.”
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