Netherlands doctors are euthanizing people with autism, intellectual disabilities: study (What happens to their organs?) Allie Griffin June 29, 2023 1:42am
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.
With those cases,experts have questioned whether the law allowing doctors to kill suicidal patients via lethal injections has strayed too far from its initial intentions when passed in 2002.
Kasper Raus, an ethicist and public health professor at Belgium’s Ghent University, said the types of patients seeking out physician-assisted suicide have changed greatly over the past two decades in both the Netherlands and Belgium, where it is also legal.
When the Netherlands became the first country to legalize human euthanasia, thedebate focused on people with cancer --- not those with autism, Raus said.
Patients must meet strict requirements including suffering from an incurable illness that causes “unbearable” physical or mental anguish to be eligible for euthanasia --- but doctors ultimately decide who qualifies.
In the roughly 10-year period the study focused on,nearly 60,000 people decided to die via euthanasia in the Netherlands, according to the Dutch government’s euthanasia review committee. Of those deaths, the committee has released documents and data on 900 cases in an effort of transparency.
Kingston University researchers looked at those 900 cases and found 39 of them had autism or an intellectual disability. Of the 39, 18 were younger than 50 years old.
Many of the patients cited a number of mental, physical and age-related ailments as the reason for ending their lives ---including unbearable loneliness.
Eight people, however, named the sole cause of their suffering as factors related to their intellectual disability ---such as social isolation, a lack of coping strategies, an inability to adjust to change or oversensitivity to stimuli.
One of the report’s main authors Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, a palliative care specialist at Kingston University,questioned the ethics of ending the lives of the autistic.
“There’s no doubt in my mind these people were suffering,” she said. “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?”
One of the eight people cited in the study was anautistic man in his 20s. He reported feeling unhappy since childhood and was regularly bullied, according to his case notes.
The man “longed for social contacts but was unable to connect with others” and eventually decided he wanted to die because “having to live on this way for years was an abomination.”
Dutch psychiatrist Dr. Bram Sizzo was disturbed by the trend.
“Some of them are almost excited at the prospect of death,” Sizoo said. “They think this will be the end of their problems and the end of their family’s problems.”
In a third of cases, Dutch doctors determined that there was “no prospect of improvement” for people with autism and intellectual disabilities, according to the study.
The director of Cambridge University’s Autism Research Centre, Simon Baron-Cohen, worried that people with such disabilities may not fully grasp the decision to end their lives. He called it “abhorrent” that they were not offered more support and were instead euthanized.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/29/netherlands-doctors-are-euthanizing-people-with-autism/
This is exactly how it started in Germany in the 1930s.
The rise of the "Four Reich"
A whole lot of the bloodshed throughout European history since the middle ages can trace right back to a utopian mindset.
Trying to create paradise on earth. Theologically, militarily, economically, whicheverly.
And all attempts at utopia mandate the elimination of everyone that won't fit within the very narrow bands of acceptable to that utopian ideal.
Sounds like Rev. 13 And all attempts at utopia mandate the elimination of everyone that won't fit within the very narrow bands of acceptable to that utopian ideal.
That is incredibly sad. How many of them were coerced into it? The real crime is all the people okay with "helping" euthanize these patients. These people are sick and needed help. These doctors and hospitals are willingly killing them off. Nazi Germany much?
As someone who has Asperger's, this is hard to even process. It has limited my social skills, and I have to really try to be normal in society so that the wrong people don't look at me funny. But I was blessed with a normal life, and my parents didn't treat me like I was special ed. I was forced to be a part of society, and for the most part, I am a functional adult. I understand not all are lucky like I was.
But the problem is that not a lot of parents want to try to keep their kids out of this fucked up schooling system. They use the state or the school as the caregiver for their children typically, and the kids don't have a chance to grow. I worked with autistic kids (because they recognized I could relate), and they needed to just be treated as individuals and Human Beings With Needs. Stop neglecting the differently abled and disabled because it takes more effort to care for them. That's not Christian, and that's not right. Euthanasia is actually worse for vulnerable people, because they're not being advocated for like the rest of us. They are given fewer opportunities already, and these sick fucks just want to rid the world of the mutants. (X Men much?). So they manipulate these people into being okay with being smited off the face of the earth.
I think pay per view euthanasia is in order for anyone who helped perpetuate the Covid bullshit and forced shots against people's will. Anyone who took part in the biggest crime of the century should be publicly euthanized for our justice.
I’d kill to be able to relate normally to people and be functional socially. Thanks to my parents being hard asses and forcing me outside of my comfort zone. I’m passable enough at pretending to function as an adult.
But it’d be nice to actually not need to pretend. I’ve never considered Asperger’s debilitating enough to be worth Suicide though. Sure. It makes life a bit harder and maintaining friendships and romantic relationships difficult. But I’ve never felt it makes things hard enough to justify suicide.