PLEASE PRAY A little info from some discussions in Belgium on CHILD #Euthanasia... A little perspective: 1. A senator in belgium: Christian Democrat Els Van Hoof. Ref. before final draft and voting in Belgian Senate on Child #Euthanasia. In the beginning they presented a law that included mentally ill children, she says. During the debate, supporters of euthanasia talked about children with anorexia, children who are tired of life - so how far does it go? 2. Who and how is Euthanasia, as it is, handled. It was Dr Wim Distelmans, an oncologist and palliative care specialist and professor at Brussels university VUB, who sanctioned the euthanasia of all three, on the grounds of psychological suffering. He is also the co-chair of the Euthanasia Commission, a panel of doctors, lawyers and interested parties that oversees the law - which, critics note, has not asked prosecutors to examine any of the 6,945 registered deaths by euthanasia in Belgium between 2002 and 2012. All cases are deemed to have been carried out within the law. 3.Dr Marleen Renard, an oncologist responsible for paediatric palliative care at the University Hospital of Leuven, believes there is no need to legislate for child euthanasia, as there are already ways to end the suffering of a dying child. If we cant treat the pain, then we can sedate children. And if we see that the situation is really inhumane, we can go to our Ethics Committee and ask for permission to end life. But we have to have the consensus of a lot of people to do that. For Renard, the critical point is that in her experience, children do not ask to die.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 02:20:04 +0000
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