Euthanasia: Normal Medical Practice?

In the 1970s the "euthanasia movement" in the Netherlands began as a against the power of contemporary medicine to alienate individuals their own dying. Instead of counterbalancing that power and enhancing individual's autonomy and control over his or her own life, it seems that acceptance of euthanasia is resulting in physicians' acquiring even power over the life and death of their patients. As the Remmelink Report, in most cases of ending human life, it is the physician who decides it is appropriate to hasten death. Furthermore, it is quite remarkable easily the morally most important cautionary standard established by -- the patient's voluntary and persistent request -- is brushed in the report. The motion adopted by the General Assembly of the Dutch of Health Law, published in the