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An Haekens, Ouderenpsychiater, Alexianen Zorggroep Tienen., vindt het problematisch dat Open VLD de euthanasiewet wil uitbreiden. Wat als iemand met dementie niet begrijpt wat er gebeurt, en zich verzet? Of wat als hij het wel beseft, en wil blijven leven?

Open VLD-voorzitster Gwendolyn Rutten heropende enkele weken geleden het debat over voltooid leven, maar dat is intussen weer gaan liggen. Wellicht was het nog te vroeg om de samenleving te overtuigen van dat 'logische eindpunt' van de glijbaan waarop de euthanasiewetgeving ons heeft geplaatst: de volledige autonomie, waarbij zelfs geen medische indicaties meer nodig zijn om euthanasie te kunnen vragen, en waarbij de arts de blinde uitvoerder wordt van de wil van de patiënt. Nu heeft Open VLD een 'redelijker' voorstel gedaan. Ze dient een wetsvoorstel in om euthanasie bij personen met dementie op basis van een wilsverklaring mogelijk te maken. En daar is iedereen het toch over eens...

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Huit soignants belges, professeurs d'université, médecins, infirmiers et éthiciens reconnus, tous spécialisés en accompagnement palliatif, tentent ensemble de rassembler leurs questions autour des soins en fin de vie et de la pratique de l'euthanasie.

Ils partagent leur vécu et leurs réflexions nées de leur confrontation aux demandes d'euthanasie et d'accompagnement en fin de vie dans un pays, la Belgique, où l'euthanasie, dépénalisée depuis 2002, est aujourd'hui souvent devenue un acte banal...

Lezen « Euthanasie, l'envers du décor. Réflexions et expériences de soignants »

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Huit soignants belges, professeurs d'université, médecins, infirmiers et éthiciens reconnus, tous spécialisés en accompagnement palliatif, tentent ensemble de rassembler leurs questions autour des soins en fin de vie et de la pratique de l'euthanasie...

Lezen « Euthanasie, l'envers du décor. Réflexions et expériences de soignants »

With the imposition of euthanasia upon medical practice in Canada and elsewhere, the internal logic of medicine itself – as a healing science built upon a 2500-year-old community of values – has been ignored and trampled. But in psychiatry, this aggressive vandalism is still more evident. The prevention of suicide is a principal goal of psychiatric treatment, a fundamental ethos. How can psychiatrists now be asked to validate and promote suicide? If the business of clinical psychiatry is not to produce a more satisfying relation to the experience of life, as reflected in the strength of an individual's desire to live (and to help find a path to a better future), then what is it for?

In Soviet Russia, political dissidents were often treated as psychiatric patients, on the grounds that their "irrationality" was demonstrated by their inability to understand the truth of Soviet doctrine. Once psychiatric diagnosis is subordinated to ideology, anything is possible...

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WHEN I began working as a doctor early in the 1970s, end-of-life care was in its infancy. Cicely Saunders had just begun her pioneering work on what she called "total pain" and very few clinicians knew how to alleviate pain and distress in the dying. Today the situation is transformed. Palliative care has been recognised as a clinical speciality in Britain for 30 years; indeed, the country was ranked in first place in The Economist Intelligence Unit's Quality of Death index. For most people in Britain today, dying does not mean an agonising death, but a gentle ebbing away of life.

Why, then, as medical science has made enormous strides in alleviating the pain and distress of dying, are we seeing relentless campaigning for the legalisation of what is being euphemistically called "assisted dying"...

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Dr Koerselman said doctors should be helping people live positive lives – rather than assisting them in suicide.

People wanting euthanasia for psychiatric reasons need advocates who will stand with them and renew their hope, a Dutch psychiatrist says...

Lezen « Instead of killing, we must give hope to patients asking for euthanasia »

The experience from Belgium suggests that euthanasia can have unexpected consequences for a patient's autonomy,

Article published in The Economist, Aug 24th 201...

Lezen « Proper palliative care makes assisted dying unnecessary »