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^{"Some Dutch doctors, hearing about the British successes with palliative care, answered that they did not need to study it, as they could apply euthanasia instead." Dutch physician Dr Karl Gunning}

"Over the past two decades, the Netherlands has moved from assisted suicide to euthanasia, from euthanasia for the terminally ill to euthanasia for the chronically ill, from euthanasia for physical illness to euthanasia for psychological distress and from voluntary euthanasia to nonvoluntary and involuntary euthanasia." Herbert.Hendin MD

Epivalothanasia * euthanasia, is a term coined by Dr. Paul Byrne   ... (click link to read complete quote)

THE NETHERLANDS (DUTCH EUTHANASIA) OPPOSITION AND PROPONENTS
 

Latest news beginning from March 22, 2007 (this page Euthanasia 2007 updates will be updated with news from the Netherlands as it comes in)

    Euthanasia 2007 updates:

Euthanasia increase, Trouw reports that the number of cases of euthanasia of patients with dementia has increased significantly - more ...

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Lessons From the Dutch Experience Herbert Hendin, M.D.  An American psychiatrist who believes in "do no harm"

Mr Marty’s muddle: a superficial and selective case for euthanasia in Europe

EUTHANASIA~ A patient isn't dying fast enough, a doctor needs the bed - solution - kill the patient  "Unfortunately, the Dutch discovered euthanasia before they discovered palliative care," says Dr Zylicz.

Why guidelines for euthanasia will never work  INSIDE THIS REPORT:

Euthanasia debate in Europe  focuses on children up to 12 years old 

Dutch euthanasia law should apply to patients "suffering through living," report says

Dutch doctors euthanize newborns 

NETHERLANDS: Dutch doctors call for new approach to reporting "mercy killings"

DUTCH:  doctor violated euthanasia laws

Depression and euthanasia  - The Dutch view

NETHERLANDS: Dutch doctors call for new approach to reporting "mercy killings"

DUTCH:  doctor violated euthanasia laws

Dutch GP found guilty of murder faces no penalty 

“The Dutch Legalization of Euthanasia”

GP is disciplined for willingness to help friend commit suicide

Dutch approve euthanasia for a patient with Alzheimer's disease

Taking the final step: changing the law on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide Legalised euthanasia will violate the rights of vulnerable patients

Legal view of right to life and death could threaten philosophy of palliative care 

On Kamisar, Killing, and the Future of Physician-Assisted Death Norman L. Cantor for more on Kamisar see http://cgi2.www.law.umich.edu/_FacultyBioPage/facultybiopagenew.asp?ID=201

Euthanasia deaths not easy,

U.K. Organ Scandal Doctor Pleads Guilty in Canada

As some Dutch adapt to euthanasia, debate simmers elsewhere

What is a Person?

Euthanasia consultants or facilitators? By Herbert Hendin ~ Professor of Psychiatry, New York Medical College, and Medical Director, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, New York, USA

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide only for the Terminally Ill? by Alex Shadenberg

Will to live in the terminally ill.

Hospitals in euthanasia row

Kill the pain, not the patient BMJ Comment by Cheryl Eckstein

A License to kill?  ~  Dutch doctor needs bed, kills patient

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LINKS

Palliative Care in Canada The Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Of Life and Death - Final Report June 1995  Appendix M   This is a worthy read, includes many questions and answers from Dutch physicians and lawyers regarding the practice of euthanasia, PAS, and palliative care in the Netherlands.

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide A Joint Statement by Doctors and Lawyers

Public Opinion on Legalizing Active Euthanasia EDWARD W. KEYSERLINGK, LLM, PH D

Though the Netherlands have legalized voluntary euthanasia - they openly practice infanticide -- but the media and physicians still call this illegal practice "mercy killing."  They are most certainly trying to seduce society into believing that children born with a disability are better off in the hands of the physician, who will put the "unfortunate" out of its misery, by "mercy killing."  That same lie was used more or less successfully during the Nazi reign.  Incredibly but true, in that era, Dutch physician would rather die than kill any human being regardless of ability or race. Now they practice killing without even blushing. [EDITOR]

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NETHERLANDS PRACTICE OF INFANTICIDE

Infanticide; Part One - The Netherlands  Archive with definitions - worthy read.

Infanticide In The Netherlands: The Killing Of Baby Maartje and Other Newborn Disabled

Holland Guide to the World? Dr. K F Gunning MD

EUTHANASIA~ A patient isn't dying fast enough, a doctor needs the bed - solution - kill the patient  "Unfortunately, the Dutch discovered euthanasia before they discovered palliative care," says Dr Zylicz.

Why guidelines for euthanasia will never work

Euthanasia deaths not easy,

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THE NETHERLANDS PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE

Dutch senators pass mercy-killing bill A long-standing practice

Physician-Assisted Suicide: What's Legal and What's Professional?

Mr Marty’s muddle: a superficial and selective case for euthanasia in Europe

Dutch voting today to permit euthanasia  First country to do so: Critics point out child could be killed if parents agree

Euthanasia deaths not easy,

“The Dutch Legalization of Euthanasia”

ASSISTED SUICIDE NO ACT OF COMPASSION

Links

Euthanasia, ethics, and public policy: An Argument Against Legalisation By John Keown = This is a read only page, and while many pages are missing, it is a worth while perusal of the contents of this book.  However you will need to have a Google news user ID and password

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BELGIUM INFANTICIDE

Baby euthanasia a reality - 300 cases of infanticide in Belgium

Belgian lawmakers propose euthanasia for children  

BELGIUM EUTHANASIA

The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care by Herbert Hendin, MD

20 Belgians a month die by euthanasia

Life gets a little cheaper  by Joseph Farah  "

Belgian euthanasia bill gains momentum  

Belgian Docs Unhappy About Proposed Euthanasia Law

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NAZI EUTHANASIA

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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers. Viktor E. Frankl  ~ 1905 - 1997

"At one of the trials, {Nuremburg} the chief female nurse, when asked whether she considered the Russians and Poles to have been murdered, answered," Murder? How do you want me to understand murder? They died from injections." But pressed further whether in her opinion that was murder, she answered, "Yes" ". [THE NAZI DOCTORS, BY JAY LIFTON,†:101.]
 

The Cost-Effectiveness of Killing: An Overview of Nazi "Euthanasia" John E. Gardella, MD Dr. Hoche pointed out that the "most universal principle is not without exception," and that physicians may in some instances be compelled to destroy life "in the interest of a higher good." He then went on to define those who may be killed "for a higher good," including "complete idiots," and the institutionalized mentally ill who are "empty human shells," whose "existence weighs most heavily on the community."

CHN founder and president threatened with a lawsuit by a CBC producer for having used some of her footage in her presentation to Canadian Parliament.

Euthanasia decree

Cardinal Clemens von Galen - August 3, 1941  The Sermon the world heard

More Jews revealed to be victims of Nazi experiments

MEDICAL SCIENCE UNDER DICTATORSHIP by DR. LEO ALEXANDER includes "The Example of Successful Resistance by the Physicians of the Netherlands.

MORE LINKS TO DR. LEO ALEXANDER & MEDICAL SCIENCE UNDER DICTATORSHIP

USELESS EATERS: Disability as Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germany Dr Mark Mostert is an expert on the Nazi T4 - euthanasia program and he developed an award winning website that is based on his research, PDF

The Bell at Hadamar by Fred Ford

VIDEO NAZI MEDICINE

NAZI MEDICINE  Important history "The take-home lessons of this documentary—even for American health care professionals—are poignant and substantive. First, our entire current moral underpinnings of clinical research involving the protection of human subjects are fundamentally rooted in the experiences and lessons of the time of the eugenics movement. The fascination of German medical science with an alleged objectivity and distance that largely excluded the concept of human worth produced an amoral scientism as a residue, where true medical science used to flourish. Perhaps most disturbing to physicians is that the Nazi doctors as a group were not amoral but, in fact, allowed their moral compass, which had been fixed on patient-centered medical care, to be realigned by a state-centered power, in which the health of the nation usurped the needs of the individual.

America in 1998 is much different from Germany in 1939. But in these times, when managed care organizations speak of the of the need to consider the "greater good" of the population served, physicians must remember to once again calibrate their moral compass to focus first and foremost upon the patient. Eugene V. Boisaubin, MD  Click link to read full review

LINK

    The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (1986), by Robert Jay Lifton (HTML with commentary at holocaust-history.org)

Quotes

"The third film, "I Accuse" (Ich klage an, 1941) was unique in that it dealt specifically with medical killing and, in fact, emerged from a suggestion ... that a film be made to persuade the German public to accept the idea of "euthanasia"... the film depicts a physician giving a lethal injection to his incurably ill wife in response to her desperate plea that he do so to relieve her of her terrible pain and suffering. Indeed, a sympathetic member of the jury before whom the physician is eventually tried states categorically that: the most important precondition is always that the patient wants it." ... But "I Accuse" is of respectable artistic quality; and after viewing portions of it, I could understand why doctors I interviewed still felt its impact and remembered the extensive discussion it stimulated among their colleagues and fellow students about the morality of a doctor's aiding incurable patients to achieve the death they long for."  JAY LIFTON, THE NAZI DOCTORS: 49
 

 Epivalothanasia * euthanasia, is a term coined by my friend Dr. Paul Byrne. In a personal letter to me (Cheryl Eckstein), Dr. Byrne said,

. . . I do know that euthanasia is the wrong word for us to be using. The translation of euthanasia from Greek is "good death." We find ourselves being opposed to "good." The correct Greek word for us to be using is Epivalothanasia. Epivalothanasia is the Greek word for "imposed death". . .

Epi- from outside; valo - to thrust upon; thanasia - death; thus, death thrust upon from outside. EPIVALOTHANASIA -- IMPOSED DEATH. . . . Paul Byrne, M.D.

This makes perfect sense to me, and I hope helps us for once and for all - to discard the term "passive euthanasia." Dr. Bryne hopes that epivalothanasia will used "so often and commonly that euthanasia will not be used, unless it is by those in support of the pro-death culture."

PLEASE NOTE, MORE FILES WILL BE ADDED SOON TO THIS PAGE, REGARDING EUTHANASIA DURING THE NAZI ERA.

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