In Belgium, home of the European Union, they clone doctors like neurologist Dr. Ronald Cranford. Cranford is the doctor who categorized Terri Schiavo in the persistent vegetative state, which led to her death by dehydration when her feeding tube was ordered removed.
The law allows doctors in Belgium to kill the patient if the person is terminally ill and suffering "constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain" from an accident or incurable illness, and if that patient requests death.
The doctor must also be satisfied that the patient is "of age and conscious" and has made the decision to be killed freely, without coercion.
Not only are white-coated doctors administering bedside suicide in the way they used to dispense cheer, now Belgian pharmacies are now cashing in on the death trade.
Two hundred and fifty pharmacies across Belgium began offering euthanasia kits last week, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
The kits cost 60 Euros ($77 U.S.) and are proposed as a means to make the jobs of doctors, who commit euthanasia in homes easier. a yahoo.com report said that 40 percent of euthanasia occurs in the patient's home in Belgium.
Belgian health authorities report almost700 euthanasia killings by physicians since it was legalized in 2002.
Sine euthanasia was legalized, the number of deaths by the practice has gone from approximately 20 per month to 30 per month.
The Netherlands has also seen a rise in euthanasia cases from 1,815 in 2003 to 1,886 last year, according to the country's health ministry statistics. Euthanasia was widespread in the Netherlands before it became legalized.
Death happy societies are bound to claim victims by default.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition in Ontario laments the fact that the legislators in Belgium have followed the lead of their Dutch neighbour. Says spokesman alex Schadenberg: "We are concerned that vulnerable people (disabled, elderly, chronically ill and the poor) in Belgium will now find themselves forced into "choosing" an earlier death or be killed against their consent. Dutch courts have already allowed euthanasia for the depressed, we fear that Belgium will soon follow their lead."
In the United States, doctors like Cranford are out on the public speakers circuit peddling the hard sell for assisted suicide.
a self-proclaimed bioethicist, Cranford is a pioneer in euthanasia and right to die issues.
as if he were merely shilling stocks, Cranford employs PR by advertising himself as "Dr. Humane".
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