January 21, 2019
When the Netherlands embraced euthanasia, along with other European countries, it claimed that it allowed for compassionate ends to lives already doomed to a suffering end. Critics warned that it would not only go far beyond the supposedly limited scope of assisted suicides, it would also create a culture of death in which suicide for any reason would become socially acceptable and perhaps even expected. The Guardian did an in-depth look at the Netherlands death statistics in 2017, ten years after the definition of "unbearable suffering" was made more ambiguous, and found that " more than a quarter "of all deaths in the country were either suicides, assisted suicides, or "terminal sedation."
Has Euthanasia Gone Too Far? asked the Guardian. The clear answer is a resounding yes, emphasis mine:.........To Read More.....
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