Parents in the Netherlands can now euthanise their terminally ill children aged 12 and under plans to widen the countries existing end of life laws.
Good grief!
The rules would apply to an estimated five to 10 children per year, who suffer unbearably from their disease, have no hope of improvement and for whom palliative care cannot bring relief, the government have said.
'The end of life for this group is the only reasonable alternative to the child's unbearable and hopeless suffering,' the government said in a statement.
Well, no doubt it'll be strictly regulated and only the most severe and hopeless cases wi...
It comes nearly four years after 17-year-old Noa Pothoven was legally allowed to die at home after medics allowed her to refuse food and drink.
The Dutch teen from Arnhem felt that life had become unbearable and she could no longer carry on after she was attacked and sexually assaulted on three separate occasions, beginning when she was just 11 years old.
Oh.
Gosh, another wedge being inserted thin end first.
ReplyDeleteThe wrong person(s) died in the case of the Dutch teen, whoever assaulted her when a child should have been shipped off down to Milwall, no reoffending troubles.
ReplyDelete"Gosh, another wedge being inserted thin end first."
ReplyDeleteAren't they always?
"...whoever assaulted her when a child should have been shipped off down to Milwall, no reoffending troubles."
Yes, strange no-one covers this aspect of the horrifying story, isn't it?