Talk:Euthanasia in the Netherlands

message: User:Jorfer proposed a merger with Euthanasia. I disagree for three reasons:
# Articles like abortion in the Netherlands, prostitution in the Netherlands, same-sex marriage in the Netherlands, but also income tax in the Netherlands create precedents for this article.
# The article euthanasia is huge, this makes it smaller I would actually advocate moving all the country sections out and making them separate articles.
#This article is substantive, has some references and external links and is overall quite accurate. I think it can exist on its own.
- C mon 07:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: There could maybe be an associated article on euthanasia in Belgium, given that Belgium has similar laws to the Netherlands on euthanasia.  ADM (talk) 00:52, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Euthanasia in Belgium

message: *sigh*.... Is this supposed to be some terrible joke? Hmmwhatsthisdo (talk) 02:17, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mentioned in the April Fool's Day WP message? 

message: Everywhere I go, the statistic of "500 involuntary deaths per year in the Netherlands" is thrown about, but I cannot find a source. It is parroted by pretty much every site that opposes euthanasia. Is there a source, or is this one of those "facts" that is considered true merely because "everyone knows"? 108.160.30.206 (talk) 00:52, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Obviously, it is very dificult to assume on what basis this statistic is based. Murder and manslaughter are involuntary deaths as well, just like people who die in traffic accidents. But I presume that this figure derives from the "Evaluatie wet toetsing levensbeëindiging op verzoek en hulp bij zelfdoding" [Evaluation / Review of the law Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide] of the Netherlands Central Office of Statistics [Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek]. http://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/F0F8C01E-B340-401A-98DC-E04722E234D7/0/2007evaluatieeuthanasiewetpub.pdf They are based on the figures of 2005 (but there might already been more recent figures). In 550 cases, doctors did not have the full and explicit consent of the patient. The majority of these 550 cases deal with newborn babies with limited life chances, but also adults in a coma. According to this report, in 88% of the cases the shortening of the life of the patient would have been less than a week. In the Netherlands, there are no guiding principles for a physician to handle in those cases that he is certain that euthanasia is the best option, for example to avoid longer suffering of the patient, but he does not have the possibility to get the full consent of the patient. In some cases, this has lead to a prosecution of the practising doctor (http://medischcontact.artsennet.nl/archief-6/tijdschriftartikel/11013/mc-20strafvervolging-na-levensbeeindiging.htm).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.87.224.98 (talk) 10:48, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  500 involuntary deaths per year? 

message: You should keep this up to date better - it reads as though it is written by the UK Government's Nudge Unit! 
79.74.105.23 (talk) 18:28, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: May I ask: WHO do you mean with 'you'? Wikipedia is written by all users together, so you might be an editor as well. If you think the article can be improved, please do it. Erik Wannee (talk) 12:19, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of Date AND biased by publications/investigations since 2010 

message: This article needs to be updated in light of the new legislation of 2016, that allows for assisted suicide in some cases Cactusss (talk) 18:30, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Evidence? The Banner talk 18:54, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  New legislation with regard to assisted suicide