Thursday, June 16, 2011

Organs of people killed by euthanasia being 'harvested for transplant surgery in Belgium'?

" ... a high proportion of deaths classified as euthanasia in Belgium have involved patients who have not requested their lives to be ended by a doctor?"


A quarter of all lung transplants in Belgium are from people killed by lethal injection
A quarter of all lung transplants in Belgium are from people killed by lethal injection

From the Daily Mail:

The organs of people killed by euthanasia in Belgium are being harvested for transplant surgery, a report revealed yesterday.


A quarter of all lung transplants in Belgium are from people killed by lethal injection. 


The study, led by Dirk van Raemdonck a surgeon from Leuven, found doctors preferred lungs taken from those who die through euthanasia as they are in a far superior condition to those from people killed in accidents.


The paper showed about 23.5 per cent of lung transplant donors and 2.8 per cent of heart transplant donors are killed by euthanasia.


Mr Van Raemdonck insisted doctors were acting within Belgian guidelines on euthanasia, which was legalised in 2002.


All of the donors had given their consent.


The report showed ‘donors were admitted to hospital a few hours before the planned euthanasia procedure’. 


They were given the lethal injection, died and then used for organ retrieval.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Pasto.
Pretty amazing and rising a lot of questions.The euthanasia procedure is not something determined by one doctor ,it's a panel of doctors (3 independent)who decide on the patients condition determining there's no hope for recovery, meaning the patient is terminally ill, not the obvious choice for harvesting organs, there is a huge shortage for transplant organs , in many cases the patient receive lunges from smokers, but to go this surprises me.By the way Belgium does have an opt-out rather than an opt-in system, so without a card saying you're not a doner your organs will be used to save others.

Anonymous said...

«Legalised euthanasia has led to a severe decline in the quality of care for terminally-ill patients in Holland, it has been claimed.
Many ask to die ‘out of fear’ because of an absence of effective pain relief»

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234295/Now-Dutch-turn-legalised-mercy-killing.html

Anonymous said...

a law was passed in Belgium stating that organs will be removed unless specifically refused in writing. DISGUSTING!

Anonymous said...

«She said it was so bad that Amsterdam, which has a population of 1.2million people, is now served by just two tiny hospices.
Clarification: Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, was asked to define when someone should be prosecuted for assisting suicide
'People were marching round the building shouting and roaring and were screaming that the hospice was denying people their right to die,' she said.
'The pro-euthanasia campaigners set out to smash the hospice movement. People can no longer get palliative care when they need it - they just get an injection.'»

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234295/Now-Dutch-turn-legalised-mercy-killing.html



DISGUSTING!

Anonymous said...

«It is also alleged that there have been thousands of cases of involuntary euthanasia and dozens of killings of disabled newborns.»

DISGUSTING!