Euthanasia in Belgium

So it is now done. You can buy now a special kit in Belgium all ready for you to use for euthanasia.

Link to article

i couldn't find more in english, but this is quiet a news. i don't know how to position on this specific topic, but having a kit to do it at home, is not the best option i would say.

what are your views on that?

KJ1

All I have to say is this "Where can I purchase this kit? I wonder if I can buy it online? hmmmm.... If I were to ever contract AIDS and there is still no cure, or I grow up to be a senile old woman suffering from Alheimer's disease, I would like to use that kit. I honestly think that old age is overrated. We merely revert back to infancy and I don't care to wear a diaper again. In the famous words of Billy Joel "The sinners have much more fun. You only the good die young."

I don't know which is worse: to sell the kits freely to everyone, or to involve doctors in the practice of this monstrosity. If this is true, then it must be a sign of something, a part of something larger still to come. I wonder, before human error is committed on massive scales, would anyone be able to see the signposts along the way?

euthanasia itself is a huge problem, by the fact that nobody is and nobody will be ever agreed on the fact that one should be able to decide for his death. so having a kit sold in pharmacy sp doctor could do it at home makes it very controversial.
i am agreed that this is the beginning of something big and what will we have next? Do-Your-Own-Clone Kit? well you never know.

KJ1

A problem would arise if it gets used as a suicide kit of sorts. "Oh I'm depressed and I don't want to live." No, a doctor shouldn't give a kit like this in a case like this, because depression can be handled without resorting to stupid answers like suicide, or those dumb ass anti-depressants.

Troy

agreed.

for all of you there is a good article on the subject in the last New Scientist.

New Scientist

Jules

did you know that the Netherlands have authorized euthanasia for more than 20 years now?
crazy this Dutch!