Netherlander Suicide Clinic for the Depressed
By Wesley J. Smith
Psychiatrist Boudewijn Chabot
The Netherlands has been expanding the categories of the killable caste for decades. Back in 1991, a psychiatrist named Boudewijn Chabot assisted the suicide of a woman whose two children had died to fulfill her obsession to be buried between them.
The Dutch Supreme Court ruled logically that was just fine because suffering is suffering, and it doesn’t matter whether it is physical or emotional.
Now clinics are assisting the suicides of depressed patients whose own doctors won’t kill them. From the Daily Beast story:
In early 2012 a group called the Life-Ending Clinic went into operation for people whose personal physicians refused to terminate their lives or assist their suicides. The clinic has since tested the boundaries of “unbearable suffering.” Among those it has helped to die: people with chronic depression and those who have signed their own euthanasia declaration in the early stages of dementia.
“We consider it self-evident that someone who is terminal can turn to euthanasia,” Life-Ending Clinic Director Steven Pleiter told The Daily Beast. “Now we are entering a phase in which there will be more debate about patients who are not terminally ill, among them psychiatric patients and those with dementia.”
Even Chabot is worried:
Psychiatrist Boudewijn Chabot, seen
as a pioneer of the euthanasia movement after his conviction in 1991 for
helping a female patient die, told the Dutch TV program Nieuwsuur that
the law “has gone off the rails.”…
Chabot warned that the emphasis on a
long-term doctor-patient relationship is paramount when it comes to
evaluating psychiatric problems. “There are a 100,000 chronic
psychiatric patients” in the Netherlands, according to Chabot, and of
those “a large segment struggles with and against a death wish.” If the
Life-Ending Clinic wants to take on such a responsibility, he said, then
it better “get ready.”
Hypocrite! Chabot knew the suicidal woman he infamously assisted only
briefly, having met her at a Voluntary Euthanasia Society meeting. He
helped kill her after meeting with her only 4 times over about 5 weeks,
with no treatment every attempted.If Chabot is upset, you know things are really getting bad! Here’s an example from the story:
In one highly publicized example last
year, the clinic helped a 63-year-old man with severe psychiatric
problems to end his life. After a very active career working for
government, the patient in question could not face his upcoming
retirement. In an interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad the
clinic’s psychiatrist, Gerty Casteelen said the man “managed to
convince me that it was impossible for him to go on. He was all alone in
the world. He’d never had a partner. He did have family but he was not
in touch with them. It was almost like he’d never developed as a person.
He felt like he didn’t have the right to live. His self-hatred was all
consuming.”
Source: NRLC News
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