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From: Emma <e...@newsguy.com>

Date: 6 Nov 2009 11:28:53 -0800

Local: Fri, Nov 6 2009 8:28 pm

Subject: Re: Laying the Netherlands to Sleep - A Beacon Of Liberalism Is Rotting

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In article <hd1sl9$ev...@news.xmission.com>, Jon Schild says...

>Sound of Trumpet wrote:

>> Laying the Netherlands to Sleep (a beacon of liberalism worldwide is
>> rotting from the inside out)

>Long boring rant on how The Netherlands is rotten because it doesn't
>cater to the extreme right-wing variety of "christians" to the exclusion
>of all other possible ideas.

Well not really. It makes some good points about
culture and demographic change.
Although the following isn't necessarily just
a Dutch thing:

quote:
"But deep sedation as currently practiced in the Netherlands has become
a widespread form of passive euthanasia."
end quote.

This is common in Britain too.

One of my own elderly relatives had a massive heart
attack, was terminally ill, very frail and in a lot of
pain, so he was allowed to die under deep sedation.

We don't have euthanasia here, so that is not
euthanasia in the legal sense.
Anyway, I don't care about the legality, because it was
the loving thing to do. He was never going to get better
and the only thing that was left was endless pain,
and we didn't want him to suffer like that.

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