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Originally Posted by Thor
No doctor will be forced against their will, if they have objections there should be a strict set of rules and a committee to go over these objections.
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Public opinion in the Netherlands is shifting towards euthanasia being a right and doctors being forced to do the procedure. Laws are being drafted to force doctors who are against the proceudre to refer their patients to an associate that will. What happened to doctors rights the law said would protect them?
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Safeguards like you are of course mentally sound that you decide, no one can ever force you, if you want put in your will conditions where if your no longer mentally sound that you wish or do not wish for conditions that would come up. Again there is lots of ways to go about this, ideally strict rules and a committee to go over a case.
I just feel like people are bringing up scenarios that are highly unlikely and things like sad teenagers, back problems, etc.. Akin to the anti gay marriage people suggesting we marry our pets.
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When you see a sudden sharp increase in cases with those given euthanasia or assisted suicide because of people being aged, lonely or bereaved, Boer is correct when he says we need to discuss this more. The suggestion or fear is that it is drifting away from a last resort to a normaility.
You also have doctors and others in the medical field who were once for euthanasia but are now raising concerns sfter seeing what is happening.
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We need to move forward and make this happen, our humanist group in Iceland is working on bringing this to the forefront in Iceland, the will is there here but I see some ludicrous objections here as well for those against it, mostly its unfounded as there is an easy way to go about setting clear cut guildelines and rules as to how to go about all this.
We have a few experts working on drafting such recommendations on how to proceed that includes a top doctor at our main hospital, lawyers, psychiatrists, etc.. I'll share what we come up with when the time comes, our goal is to have a paper out on this by end of summer next year at the latest,
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I look forward to hearing what they have to say
