Thursday, January 19, 2006

Involuntary Euthanasia?

I think "involuntary euthanasia" in a euphemism for MURDER. Where is the outrage? Why do Britons not care? I am also surprised that over 1 in 20 deaths in the Netherlands are from a doctor killing their patient. So much for the Hypocratic Oath.

About 0.16 percent of U.K. deaths in 2004 were caused by voluntary euthanasia, in which the patient requests death and the drug that causes it is administered by someone else, Clive Seale, Professor of Sociology at London's Brunel University, said in a paper published in January's Palliative Medicine journal. In 0.33 percent of deaths, involuntary euthanasia took place, in which patients who hadn't explicitly requested it were helped to die.... Doctors helped patients to die in about 5.12 percent of cases in the Netherlands, 2.78 percent of instances in Belgium, and more than 1 percent of deaths in both Denmark and Switzerland, according to the study. Bloomberg News

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