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Tuesday, November 25th, 2014

Students of Death

Author:     Katrin Kuntz
Source:     Der Spiegel (Germany)
Publication Date:     11/21/2014 04:50 PM
 Link: Students of Death
Stephan:   I found this a very moving story of antipodes: enforced government inflicted death, and an individual choosing to end their own life. It is my personal belief that if you don't have control over your own body you really have no control at all. For that reason I am pro-choice, and pro-assisted suicide. Having had a wife die in the agony of cancer I have direct experience with what the later involves. Although it was never a choice we chose I can understand why some might make choose it. These are powerful issues that get far too little discussion, and even when they do get attention it is usually from a position enmeshed in religion or ideology couched in polemics, rarely involving people actually faced with such decisions.
Belgian palliative doctor Wim Distelmans of Brussels recently generated significant controversy when he organized a trip to Auschwitz for some of the leading practitioners of euthanasia in Belgium. Euthanasia has been legal in the country for the terminally ill since 2002. Last year, 1,807 people received euthanasia, which amounts to two percent of all fatalities in the country. Credit: Maria Feck/ DER SPIEGEL

Belgian palliative doctor Wim Distelmans of Brussels recently generated significant controversy when he organized a trip to Auschwitz for some of the leading practitioners of euthanasia in Belgium. Euthanasia has been legal in the country for the terminally ill since 2002. Last year, 1,807 people received euthanasia, which amounts to two percent of all fatalities in the country.
Credit: Maria Feck/ DER SPIEGEL

A group of Belgium’s leading practitioners of euthanasia recently visited the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial to learn more about death and humanity. The trip proved to be just as controversial for the doctors as it did insightful.

Wim Distelmans is responsible for the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands […]

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1 Comment

  1. John Alexander on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 9:38 am

    Now this is an area that needs far more attention! Interestingly those who are “pro-life” and willing to subject others to pain and suffering are the same ones supporting the death penalty – which has repeatedly been proven to be flawed.