Over the coming weeks, we will be giving you snippets from newly published research, Killing Me Softly by Professor Rex Ahdar... The potential for abuse and flouting of procedural safeguards is a strong argument against legalisation. A very small percentage of all deaths in the Netherlands and Belgium were cases of euthanasia implemented without the patient’s request (i.e., involuntary euthanasia). But as a percentage of terminated deaths, through euthanasia or assisted suicide, the figure is more alarming. A recent study found that 32 percent of all physician assisted deaths in the Flemish region of Belgium in 2007 were done without an explicit request from the patient (Chambaere: 2010). The requirement to report euthanasia has not been fully complied with in those nations either Read the report here...
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 07:00:00 +0000
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