Thu Jul 6, 2023 – 11:44 am EDT
(Live Action) — A new report on euthanasia in the Netherlands has revealed that numerous autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities have been euthanized solely because they felt they couldn’t lead “normal” lives.
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, a palliative care specialist at Britain’s Kingston University, led a study in which she reviewed 900 case files from 2012-2021, and discovered 39 cases that involved autistic or intellectually disabled individuals.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that the Netherlands had killed a record number of people through euthanasia, 115 of whom had no illness beyond psychiatric issues. Euthanasia is largely unregulated there, allowing people with disabilities and autism to be killed — as Tuffrey-Wijne discovered — despite not being physically ill at all.
In many instances, social issues were mentioned as a cause of suffering. One patient, a woman under age 30, was “unable to make friends and had become isolated, including within her own family.” A gentleman in his 70s was described as never having been able to “keep up with society” and his “autistic traits made it increasingly difficult for him to cope with changes around him.” A male
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