Netherlands, euthanasia and the very slippery slope

In 2002 the Netherlands legalised euthanasia, making it the first country to declare it legal for doctors to assist in suicides.¹ A 25-year review published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that death by assisted suicide rose from 1.7% in 1990 before it was legal, to 4.5% in 2015.²

In July LifeSiteNews reported that euthanasia in the Netherlands is getting so out of hand that 200 Dutch doctors took out an advertisement in a major newspaper which stated:

“[Assisted suicide] for someone who cannot confirm he wants to die? No, we will not do that. Our moral reluctance to end the life of a defenseless man is too great.”³

In the Netherlands, cases include: doctors “euthanising” an elderly woman against her will, a man being euthanised because he was an alcoholic, a 45-year-old woman and a woman in her 20s euthanised because they had traumatic childhood memories, a 54-year-old woman euthanised because she had a pathological fear of germs which forced her to obsessively clean, and a 34-year-old mother euthanised because she was chronically depressed.

As Victoria now debates euthanasia laws, Andrew Bolt asks if Victoria’s politicians have even looked at what’s happened in the Netherlands.

1. http://www.dailywire.com/news/19315/grim-now-thats-its-legal-euthanasia-netherlands-hank-berrien
2. https://stream.org/euthanasia-used-4-5-percent-deaths-netherlands/
3. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dutch-euthanasia-getting-so-out-of-hand-that-even-assisted-death-docs-want