Do no harm.

Legal euthanasia of mentally ill people isn't scary enough for you?

What's your cutoff for "scary"? 10 per year? 100? 1000? Cleaning out whole hospitals in an afternoon?

Either one is too many, or its just a matter of dressing it up in the right propaganda.

The only acceptable capital punishment is when the perpetrator is killed by the victim during the commission of the crime. Because all the other alternatives give government employees too much power.

Unfortunately, that rubbish is for real. I know enough in the dutch community that among the elderly, going to the 'doctor' is an issue to be avoided at all costs.

They have 'reinvented' lessons from the National Socialists under the guise of 'compassionate death'...and lives 'not worth living' rhetoric.

It always starts with small 'hard cases' and inevitably the gateway to Hell opens wide.

Need your inheritance early...? Let's get grandma to visit the 'doctor'...

The National Socialists began their killing spree under the "T4 euthanasia programme"; which eventually led to war crimes prosecutions.

The programme began in 1939, and ultimately resulted in the murder of more than 70,000 people who were senile, mentally handicapped, mentally ill, epileptics, cripples, children with Down's Syndrome or people with similar afflictions. The murders involved interference in Church welfare institutions, and awareness of the murderous programme became widespread, and the Church leaders who opposed it - chiefly the Catholic Bishop August von Galen of Munster and Protestant Bishop Theophil Wurm - were therefore able to rouse widespread public opposition.

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

I conclude you are assuming correlation equals causation. This assumption is incorrect.

It's been proven by many people smarter than you.

From "modus vivendi" to "mortui vivos docent"...(The dead teach the living)

Just because one closes one's eyes to certain state practices doesn't mean they don't occur. The Belgians are't far behind either....Try not to behave like an ostrich.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26181615

Belgium's parliament votes through child euthanasia 13 February 2014

Church leaders argued the law is immoral.

"The law says adolescents cannot make important decisions on economic or emotional issues, but suddenly they've become able to decide that someone should make them die," Brussels Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard, head of the Catholic Church in Belgium, said at a prayer vigil last week.

Some paediatricians have warned vulnerable children could be put at risk and have questioned whether a child can really be expected to make such a difficult choice.

Last week 160 Belgian paediatricians signed an open letter against the law, claiming that there was no urgent need for it and that modern medicine is capable of alleviating pain.

Just because a certain group in the population don't give a good God damn; doesn't mean it isn't wrong either.

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

"Try not to behave like an ostrich."
Name calling is your response, ah yes,of course. You're still using reductio ad absurdum arguments. With that silly overused sig line it fits. "Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army Army Group “True North”" yeah right...

well now missus lance, as to comprehension, you fail miserably. I posited a mathematical (statistical) based question, you respond emotionally. You in the past have claimed to be a lefty, I no longer doubt your word on that.

phantom, were did I address the morality of euthanasia????? See above to missus lance!!!

john galt

the question is is are we seeing a concentration effect because the "program" is not available in surrounding countries, this again questions the "math" of the article

Sum in here really need to take a course in statistic analysis. And then learn to discuss logical issues with their emotions set aside. As to whether I support or not an euthanasia program is for a different day, because there are too many emotionally immature participants in here.

Well said, and I agree.

hans you fool, I was born over there, so just about all my relatives are dutch.

now try getting rid of your VAIN sign off in here as I'm unawares of any kristian religion that has vanity as a tenant.

If you want to be taken seriously, then stop calling yourself Santa Claus.

"Murder is murder. "

The real world does not agree with that overly simplistic view.

"Why keep them alive?"

Why kill them? Why not leave them alive?

Do you want your tax dollars keeping people with "severe psychiatric problems" alive? I consider it a waste of tax money. Of course if you want to sponsor one to live with you, then I have no objection.

Says the guy who sees "jooos" and "katholiQs" everywhere.

The slippery slope oft-warned is now here. What was supposed to be for the very ill is now for anyone at all, even without their knowledge or consent.

Yeah, I'd say that's a problem and I'm clear-headed enough to see it.

Yeah, I am greatly disturbed as well.

First they came for the unborn....but I was not unborn........

Then, they came for the terminally ill...but I was not terminally ill.......

Then they came for the unresponsive (brain dead)....but I was not unresponsive (brain dead)....

So John, who gets to choose who lives and who dies? Some politically connected hack who sucks up to the right people for a living, is the correct answer. Because that's how the civil service works.

You want that guy deciding if your Alzheimer's stricken relative dies today?

This is the reality of your proposal. This is what Holland has fallen to.

Won't be long now before "intractable mental illness" is a label applied to any person the regime finds inconvenient. Historical precedent indicates the toboggan ride down the slippery slope picks up speed fast.

Here's a couple more pithy aphorisms for you to consider.

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely. "

"Who watches the watchers?"

The article is about euthanizing people with severe, incurable, violent, psychiatric problems, ie. the criminally insane.
Your Reductio ad absurdum 'slippery slope' arguments are a bulls h i t distraction,
with no relevance to the subject at hand.

There's another old aphorism, most apt in this case,"give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile", and government epitomises that one.

Medical care is expensive,hugely expensive,and your slippery slope argument is spot on,because every year it costs more of our budget to look after the mentally ill, the criminally insane, the elderly, those with chronic medical conditions,people who aren't politically correct, persons guilty of hate crimes,etc.,etc.

I've said with my ruefully cynical humor for years that mine will be the first generation to be medically murdered by our own children, out of economic necessity, no malice at all.

My Daughter, a nurse,has agreed to use a particularly fine needle to administer my lethal injection,for the good of the state.