Someday...
Sunday 03 February 2008 at 07:47 am.... I will have to decide I want to end someone's life.
Euthanasia is still a criminal offence in my country, but a medical doctor will not be prosecuted if he (or she) has committed euthanasia in very specific cases, under very specific (and defined!) circumstances. It's not, like other treatments, a patients right (a doctor is not obligated to do it). Nor is it a privilege. It's different. It feels different.
That's why this article surprised me. It states doctors have (besides the conditions required by law) other criteria they use to decide if they find a request for euthanasia valid, mainly the way the request is formulated. It also states higher educated patients have more developed communicational skills and are therefore more likely to formulate a valid request for euthanasia. This puts behind the less educated patients and that's why they have published ten ways to formulate the euthanasia request in such a matter the doctor is more likely to proceed. They make it sound a patient has a right to have euthanasia and it's our duty to make sure every patients has a equal chance... but it doesn't feel that way. To commit euthanasia, a doctor needs to be absolutely sure the patients suffers 'unbearable with no prospect of improvement'... and this, logically, depends on the way the request is made. It feel wrong to publish 'ten ways to convince the doctor.' Or at least it does for me. (Which is actually quite strange... because I think the possibility to choose the way you die, is a possibility we have to charish.)One comment
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