Fri Sep 29, 2023 – 12:07 pm EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — The Irish Law Society Gazette published an article on September 26, 2023, reporting on the presentation by Professor Theo Boer to the [Irish government] Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying.
Boer, who is from the Netherlands, supported the Netherlands’ euthanasia law in the past. However, after being a euthanasia case reviewer for nine years (2005–2014) he has come to the conclusion that it is impossible to police the euthanasia law.
Boer told the Committee that “loneliness and meaningless are constituent reasons for asking for euthanasia.” Boer gave an example of how the law could not be upheld:
He cited a Dutch case where there was a question over the legitimacy of a signature requesting euthanasia, and from which an ethics committee had to step back, because it did not hold criminal investigatory powers.
‘When the doctor was asked ‘are you sure that this signature is the signature of the patient,’ the doctor said ‘I was told that it was.’’
‘So, in the end, we backed off,’ Prof Boer said.
Boer commented on the “silent pressure” of euthanasia:
Once you have a law… it is absolutely impossible to put a police
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