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re: 91 Year Old Couple Die in Double Euthanasia
Posted on 8/14/17 at 1:53 pm to Dire Wolf
Posted on 8/14/17 at 1:53 pm to Dire Wolf
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I am curious to what you mean by "abused"
Coaxing spouses or elderly parents to die so that you can get an early inheritance or reap other financial benefits. Essentially, having someone do it for selfish reasons, and not merely no longer wanting to see someone suffer.
I see that there are restrictions and that a healthy individual can't just be euthanized. However, there is a slippery slope here.
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This post was edited on 8/14/17 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 8/14/17 at 1:58 pm to Bmath
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do it for selfish reasons,
Capacity determinations always involve a physician, there would never be a scenario when lay people make the determination.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 2:06 pm to Bmath
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I see that there are restrictions and that a healthy individual can't just be euthanized. However, there is a slippery slope here
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A last important lesson that can be learnt is that the legalization of euthanasia in the Netherlands did not result in a slippery slope for medical end-of-life practices. Besides religious or principal-based arguments, the slippery slope argument is the mainstay of opponents of the legalization of euthanasia. Briefly, the argument states that: if we allow A (the use euthanasia at the request of terminally ill patients), B (abuse of euthanasia, that is, ending the life of vulnerable patient groups without their consent) will necessarily or very likely follow. B is morally not acceptable; therefore, we must not allow A (Griffiths et al. 1998; van der Burg 1992). Our studies show no evidence of a slippery slope. The frequency of ending of life without explicit patient request did not increase over the studied years. Also, there is no evidence for a higher frequency of euthanasia among the elderly, people with low educational status, the poor, the physically disabled or chronically ill, minors, people with psychiatric illnesses including depression, or racial or ethnic minorities, compared with background populations (Battin et al. 2007).
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