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Mardis des Bernardins – Special newscast on suffering,...euthanasia, dignity, end of life.

Medical points of view, grieving mothers, jurists etc.

Here's the link towards the mp3 newscast

http://radionotredame.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/mardis-des-bernardins/mardis-des-bernardins-23-04-2013.mp3

Broadening the law relating to euthanasia. Can a perverse law be « perfectionned »?

Published by M. Jacques ZEEGERS(Columnist). 12/04/2013 at 12h27

The propositions aiming to broaden the law's field of application relating to euthanasia and presently before the Belgian parliament are justified, according to their authors, by a finding : The 2002 law contained « imperfections ». This justification already calls for a first comment. In order to perfection a law, it would already have to be a good law in ...

The Rassemblement québécois contre l'euthanasie (RQCE) announced this morning that there will be an important citizen mobilisation against euthanasia during simultaneous press junkets in Quebec and in Montreal (in front of the Parliament of the Quebec National Assembly and in front of Le Musée des Hospitalières de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal). On May 18th, all Quebecers are invited to take part in « The Spring March », a big family happening to denounce the Quebec Government's overture to euthanasia with the ...

Who can still deny the social derivatives from the introduction of the pactice of euthanasia in Belgium.

Euthanasia in psychiatry is a valid alternative to suicide in Belgium.

"If someone really wants to die, we should dare to help them.

That is in any case, what came out of the interview (below in Dutch) published in Knack magazine.

Psychiatrist Lieve Thienpont, LEIF group doctor (LevensEindInformatieForum) and jurist Tony Van Loon both are part of Ulteam (Uitklaring Levenseindevragen Team) in Wemmel, a multidisciplinary ...