A 74-year-old woman with dementia was euthanized by her doctor against her will.
The doctor also drugged her coffee and had family members physically restrain her for the last lethal injection.
The court in the Netherlands cleared the Dutch doctor of all wrongdoing, clarifying the euthanasia law of the country enacted in 2002 in relation to patients with ‘severe dementia.’
Doctors can now euthanize patients with dementia even if they object at the time, as long as they have previously given their consent for the process. This means that if a patient changes their mind about the fatal procedure, a doctor can still continue the procedure.
MedicalXPress reported: “The court ruled that in rare cases of euthanasia that were being performed on patients with severe dementia — and who had earlier made a written request for euthanasia — the doctor ‘did not have to verify the current desire to die.”
In the case of the elderly Dutch woman with dementia, she never gave her consent to be euthanized. According to her will, she would like to be euthanized ‘whenever I think the time is right.’
When asked if she wanted the fatal procedure, she answered many times that her sufferings were not bad enough to say yes.
“The 74-year-old woman had renewed her living will about a year before she died, writing that she wanted to be euthanized ‘whenever I think the time is right.’ Later, the patient said several times in response to being asked if she wanted to die: ‘But not just now, it’s not so bad yet!’ according to a report from the Dutch regional euthanasia review committee.”
But she was euthanized, anyway.
In addition, the doctor drugged her coffee without her knowledge and euthanized her while she was physically restrained.
The National Review reported in 2018: “The Dutch plunge into the euthanasia moral abyss continues to accelerate, with the number of patients killed by doctors exceeding 6,000 in 2017. That’s more than 500 a month, 100 a week, and 15 a day.
“Demonstrating the consequences of accepting the premise that eliminating suffering justifies eliminating the sufferer, Dutch psychiatrists killed 83 of their mentally ill patients in 2017 — up from twelve in 2012 and 43 in 2014.”
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