Half of Belgian nurses admitt to killing their patients

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Belgian euthanasia nurses 'fail to get consent

By Simon Caldwell, The Daily Telegraph June 9, 2010

Almost half of deaths by euthanasia in Belgium have involved patients who have not explicitly requested their lives to be ended by a doctor, a study has suggested.

A fifth of nurses interviewed by researchers admitted that they had been involved in the euthanasia of a patient based on the "assumption" they would want to die. Nearly half of the nurses - 120 of 248 - admitted they had taken part in "terminations without request or consent".

Euthanasia has been legal in Belgium since 2002. It accounts for two per cent of all deaths annually. The law states that patient consent must be given and that doctors must carry out the procedure. But the study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal shows that the rules are routinely flouted and shows how doctors often delegate the administering of fatal drugs to nurses.

The study states: "By administering the life-ending drugs in some of the cases of euthanasia, and in almost half of the cases without an explicit request from the patient, the nurses in our study operated beyond the legal margins of their profession."

Dr Peter Saunders, of the anti-euthanasia charity Care Not Killing, said: "We should take warning from this that wherever you draw the line people will go up to it and beyond it."

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Belgian+euthanasia+nurses+fail+consent/3132473/story.html#ixzz0qZ7q3zl7

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Careful. You might be sued for libel by all nurses in Belgium for that false title.

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Careful. You might be sued for libel by all nurses in Belgium for that false title.

What is false about it?

Nearly half of the nurses - 120 of 248 - admitted they had taken part in "terminations without request or consent".

Terminating someone without request or consent is murder. Can you put a different label on the act?

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Does Belgium have uni-care? If so, maybe they are cutting costs.

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did they have a death panel?

[Heracles 417]

Does Belgium have uni-care? If so, maybe they are cutting costs.

America has insurance companies that do the same, so it equals out.

[Nagishkaw 510]

America has insurance companies that do the same, so it equals out.

Don't know about the insurance companies, but doctors have been doing this for as long as I can remember.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

America has insurance companies that do the same, so it equals out.

What are the percentages chart boy? Bullsh!t! After spending a trillion there still going to be ppl uninsured.