Voorbeelden van euthanasia

• Do you believe that euthanasia has been performed in our country secretly, although it is illegal?

• In addition, the authors deliver a quick overlook of dilemmas concerning legalisation and application of euthanasia.

• The bill obliges physicians to report euthanasia to the prosecution, while euthanasia itself remains a criminal offence.

• No legislation has addressed questions of withholding or withdrawing treatment, terminal sedation, or voluntary active euthanasia.

• What about the theological sanctity of human life argument, which also condemns voluntary active euthanasia?

• Indeed, as long as lethal palliation is permitted, those distinctions cannot even place withdrawing life-sustaining treatment and active euthanasia on different sides of the line.

• Eighty-one of 85 oncologists answered the question of who should decide to perform euthanasia.

• If the patient's condition is intolerable, a physician may chose to perform euthanasia when he considers the conflicting duties carefully.

• This clearly contradicts the empirical observation that points to a change of the statutory interpretation towards a more liberal view of euthanasia.

• This implies that each player has a unique position on euthanasia; one that a player prefers most.

• The policy dimension varies from maintaining, or even reinforcing, a ban on euthanasia (right), to legalizing euthanasia completely (left).

• They preferred the continuation of the current governing coalition to their own position on euthanasia.

• Some respondents talked positively of euthanasia as a solution to the potential trauma involved in suffering a lingering demise.

• For example, interesting questions can be posited regarding advance directives that request euthanasia.

• The euthanasia debate in particular seems to have become mired in rhetoric and stalled by all-too-familiar arguments.