Elderly Woman Resisted Being Euthanized When She Saw the
Needle, So Her Family Held Her Down
SPUC Jul 27, 2018 |
1:15PM Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Dutch doctor who was rebuked for killing an elderly dementia patient without consent and in a
traumatic manner has been given a formal reprimand by the Dutch
medical complaints board, and may now face criminal charges.
Worldwide
horror
The case involved a woman in her
seventies, who was placed in a care home after her dementia became so advanced
that her husband could no longer cope with care at home. She was distressed and
frightened, and after a few weeks, the doctor at the home determined that she
was suffering unbearably. He concluded that she was not mentally competent, but
that an earlier statement in her will that she wanted euthanasia “when I myself
find it the right time”; justified killing her.
The story was greeted with horror
around the world, as it emerged that the doctor drugged the victim’s coffee,
and had her family hold her down as she tried to fight off the
lethal injection. Despite the woman not being mentally competent to consent to
being killed, a review panel cleared the doctor of all charges.
No
consent given
Now, the Dutch medical complaints
board has formally reprimanded the
unnamed doctor -the first case in which a practitioner has been formally
censured since the Netherlands made it legal for doctors to kill patients at
their request in 2002.
The board said that the woman’s will
was contradictory, and that although she said she wanted to die on some days,
on others she did not. She had written an ‘advance directive’ asking to be
killed if her dementia became too severe, but whenever the issue of asking to
die was raised, she also added: “Not now, it’s not so bad yet”. The board found
that the doctor should have discussed the fact that a sedative was put in her
coffee – which did not happen – and only carried out euthanasia if she agreed.
Criminal
charges
The chief public prosecutor at The
Hague is investigating whether there are grounds for criminal charges to be
laid against the doctor, with an announcement expected after the summer.
Even a euthanasia advocate who was
involved in a historic case at the Supreme Court that helped set the legal
conditions for the procedure in the Netherlands condemned the killing of the
woman. ‘This case is appalling,’ said Dr Boudewijn Chabot, adding that the
euthanasia of the Alzheimer’s patient “goes beyond the law as we understand
it.”
Slippery
slope
In March, the Dutch Public
Prosecution Service announced that it has begun investigations into four cases of
euthanasia, including one of a woman with Alzheimer’s who was killed without
consent. The dangers of legalized euthanasia to the vulnerable have also been
highlighted in Belgium. It emerged this week that three children, one only nine years old,
have had their lives ended by doctors since the euthanasia of minors was
legalized in 2016.
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My comment: this is outrageous and disgusting. But is par for the course for the culture of death now so prevalent in this country and around the world. Why would anyone be surprised to read such things, when babies are slaughtered in the womb at the rate of nearly 3,000 every single day in the U.S.? Life has little value among some; it is a war against the gift of life, hence, it is a war against God Almighty. There will be a heavy price to pay for those that kill the innocent, unless there is repentance. May God have mercy on our country!
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