{"id":1387,"date":"2014-04-22T19:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2014-04-22T19:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T23:34:49","slug":"in-the-netherlands-a-woman-was-euthanized-because-she-had-tinnitus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/in-the-netherlands-a-woman-was-euthanized-because-she-had-tinnitus\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Netherlands, a woman was euthanized because she had tinnitus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omroepwest.nl\/nieuws\/15-04-2014\/vrouw-uit-nootdorp-vertelt-euthanasieverhaal-ik-heb-oorsuizen-en-ik-wil-dood\">Gaby Olthuis was killed by euthanasia on March 1, 2014<\/a> (in Dutch). She was the mother of two children. She was not at end-of-life. She did not have a terminal illness. She suffered from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tinnitus\">tinnitus<\/a>, the \"perception of sound within the human ear when no actual sound is present\".<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Mrs. Olthuis not only asked to be, but was actually killed because she had tinnitus.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Dutch media, she experienced intense and painful noise for a dozen years. Doctors said there was no cure for her condition. In fact, Mrs Olthuis was living with a disability, but her situation was not terminal. It is easy to imagine that her situation would cause depression.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, her request was declined. But she persevered and the request for euthanasia was accepted on February 1. A month later, she was dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands began by allowing only euthanasia for people at the end of a terminal illness. But there is more and more abuse. The case of Mrs Olthuis is neither the first nor the last case of abuse of the Dutch euthanasia law.<\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to create safeguards that won\u2019t be ignored. Abuse is inevitable. Let\u2019s not make the same mistake as in Belgium and in the Netherlands: Let\u2019s refuse the legalisation of \u201cmedical aid in dying\u201d, euthanasia or assisted suicide in Qu\u00e9bec and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaby Olthuis was killed by euthanasia on March 1, 2014 (in Dutch). She was the mother of two children. She was not at end-of-life. She did not have a terminal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}