A medical ethicist has resigned from a Dutch regional assessment committee for euthanasia over a law which allows non-consenting demented patients to be euthanised. For ten years Berna van Baarsen helped to assess whether euthanasia had been performed in accordance with the law in the North Holland region.
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Continue reading Euthanasia and elder abuse:An article by Fabian Stahl has revealed that Oregon’s assisted suicide act, and the way that the Oregon Health Authority chooses to interpret it, contains a troublingly relaxed definition of terminal illness.
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