[Magdalen] Euthanasia when the patient does not request it.

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 7/2/15 5:42 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> ....
> I have read of some times when the physician euthanized a patient who did
> not request it.  One case (and let us hope it is a rare matter) involved an
> elderly lady who was ill, but did not wish to take euthanasia.  Her
> physician was able to convince her to allow herself to be admitted to a
> hospital when he promised her very emphatically that he would never do
> euthanasia unless she asked for it.
>
> He reportedly returned after a could of days off to find that she had been
> euthanized by another physician.  "I needed the bed," was the explanation
> given.

That particular story was posted on Anglican some years ago by Shari da 
Silva.  It was a Dutch old lady and hospital, not too long after 
euthanasia became legal there.  I don't remember whether she cited a 
source.  Being a doctor herself, it might have been a medical source.


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