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certificate since death has been caused not by nature but by the doctor. Doctor must keep death certificate incomplete & call in the local medical examiner to investigate. Physician's report + medical examiner's report five regional inter-disciplinary VAE review committees.
Unbearable suffering to patient & as last resort when doctors were asked which reasons patient most often gave for requesting VAE their replies to question for ending life in 57%, was loss of dignity, in 46% not dying in a dignified way, in 33% dependence", & in 23%, tiredness of life only, 46% mentioned pain.
To injure someone negligently, breach of contract, or agreements to engage in sexual immorality is illegal but not criminal offence. To claim that such conduct is lawful is misguided. It was parliament's intention to condone suicide & purpose of legislation was not to help the suicidal to commit suicide but to help then not to commit suicide. Which is a grave wrong.
4th hypocrisy concerns the patients right to refuse medical treatment including life-saving medical treatment even if refusal result in death is the law not allowing patient to commit suicide & if so how doctors are prohibited to assist suicide by handing the patients syringe filled with potlasium chloride?
Refusing treatment to end life or by lethal injection to end life motive is same in both cases. Doctors intention is simply to respect patients consent or refusal which are suicidal. There is not moral difference in commission or omission in giving lethal pill or switching off the patient's life-support machine? Intention is identical without difference.
In 1996 case before course court of Appeal in Amisterdam.
A new born baby with spina bifida hydrocellaphus, a spinal cord lesion & brain damage. Doctor decided not be operate on spina bifida because of bad prognosis. Baby was suffering so parents asked for ending life & she was killed after 3 days of birth, court held doctor was not guilty of murder as he enjoyed the defence of necessity as infant is suffering intoterably with no prospect of improvement and suffering is incurable & can't be alleviated
The Board of Dutch society for voluntary Euthanasia asserted that NVAE was murder & will be procuated & sentenced as such In termination of life of incompetent patients, either comatose or new born is not euthanasia as Euthanasia means killing on request. So those who can't express will because of age ill health or mentally handicapped are not part of Euthanasia.
Roman catholic view human life is cacred no one has right to dispose of it at will.
Islam-Person don't own their life & have no right to end or ask others to do so.:
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