A Case against Dutch Euthanasia

The growing acceptance of voluntary active euthanasia by the Dutch is in relation to the plastic cards requesting active euthanasia carried many people in The Netherlands, public opinion polls, and support by medical figures of the movement to legalize euthanasia. The author upon his experience as a hospital doctor to condemn the practice of euthanasia, arguing that its voluntariness is often counterfeit and questionable, that it is inseparable from overtly involuntary forms of, and that its promise of sparing the sick person agony is false. "Voluntary" euthanasia also brings an ominous change in society because of the it sends to the elderly and sick, the weak and the dependent; because fallibility of medical judgments are inconsistent with the irreversibility the act; and because the fallacious reasoning of the philosophy threatens cause irreparable damage to the medical profession. (KIE abstract)