Netherlands doctors are euthanizing people
with autism, intellectual disabilities: study
New York Post,
by
Allie Griffin
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
6/29/2023 5:53:28 AM
Several Dutch citizens who had autism or other intellectual disabilities have died by physician-assisted suicide in recent years after doctors determined their afflictions were untreatable obstacles to a normal life, researchers found.
Nearly 40 people who identified as autistic or intellectually disabled were legally euthanized in the Netherlands between 2012 and 2021, according to a Kingston University investigation of Dutch euthanasia cases.Five people younger than 30 who were killed at their own request cited autism as the sole or a major reason for their decision to end their lives, the UK study found.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/29/2023 6:00:40 AM (No. 1501701)
The Nazis never left, they just metastasized.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 6/29/2023 6:35:16 AM (No. 1501708)
When you are surrounded by people who keep telling you that you are better off dead, at some point, you may believe them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Pearson365 6/29/2023 6:42:03 AM (No. 1501712)
Isn’t euthanasia just very, very late term abortion? Which means that Democrats will soon be pushing to have Medicare and Medicaid not only paying for the macabre procedure but also covering funeral expenses to avoid burdening the families. “My body, my choice” slogan has more than one use.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 6/29/2023 6:46:52 AM (No. 1501714)
Socialized medicine's answer to "cost containment."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Cyaindasun 6/29/2023 7:43:52 AM (No. 1501737)
My 34 year old special needs daughter is mentally the age of a kindergartener. I have to help her dress, bathe, brush her teeth and hair. She can't read or write but is mobile and feeds herself but can't prepare food or clean or do laundry. She's very stubborn but it's very possible with a lot of outside pressure she could be convinced to go to "sleep" forever, especially if I were already dead and no one was there to protect her from the death squads. She is very happy and physically healthy. This euthanasia talk makes me fearful for her.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
southernboy 6/29/2023 8:28:32 AM (No. 1501775)
#5 Sometimes there are worse things than death.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/29/2023 8:43:06 AM (No. 1501788)
First they came for the autistic - - and then - - - - - - - - - -
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
AltaD 6/29/2023 9:05:47 AM (No. 1501812)
FTA: “But is society really OK with sending this message, that there’s no other way to help them and it’s just better to be dead?”
Rather than provide people with special needs assistance and social programs to help them navigate life, the progressive utopia's answer is state sponsored euthansia/execution.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jdano 6/29/2023 9:21:00 AM (No. 1501825)
All I know is I have seen 2 families suffer divorce, resulting in welfare due to severe autistic children. Both lovely young women forced to quit careers to care for burdensome and life altering kids. Both looking 20 years older than their age. These women had their lives stolen.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/29/2023 11:28:23 AM (No. 1501935)
If you are autistic, how are you mentally capable of making such a decision?
Maybe Greta Thunberg can move to the Netherlands.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/29/2023 6:27:52 PM (No. 1502245)
A couple of decades ago, I saw a lady at a local supermarket.
She had a child, maybe 4 or 5 years old. The child was in some kind of specialized reclining wheelchair/stroller, and it appeared that the child could do nothing but breathe, and was having trouble doing that. Every few minutes the child would start making a gurgling noise as if it (I do not know if it was a boy or a girl) was choking on it's own mucus, and the lady would stop and clear the kid's throat.
I mean, this poor kid was in really bad shape.
I had to wonder... and this was heart-rending... What is really the right thing to do?
If someone is in this bad a condition, that to keep them breathing someone has to pay close attention to them every minute, 24/7/365.... and they are never going to get better... are they prolonging that kid's life, or prolonging the torture? In a really severe case..... and I mean a REALLY SEVERE case, maybe it is more merciful to stop the torture, stop the pain, and let them join our Lord in Heaven.
To this day just remembering that lady, and that child, almost makes me cry .
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