Global Journalist: Euthanasia in the Netherlands
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- In the first of a two-part series on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, Global Journalist examines the issue in the Netherlands - the first country to legalize euthanasia.
Over the past decade the number of Dutch choosing to have a doctor end their lives voluntarily has climbed to nearly 7,000 per year, or about 4 percent of all deaths in the country.
This includes physically healthy people with dementia and psychological disorders that haven’t responded to treatment. Though euthanasia retains broad public support in the country, as the range of people eligible has expanded, so too has criticism of the process in which it’s carried out. On this edition of Global Journalist, a look at the Dutch experience and what lessons it holds for other countries grappling with physician-assisted suicide.
Joining the program:
*Bert de Gooijer, father of a physically-healthy 38-year-old man who chose to be euthanized in 2016
*Theo Boer, a professor of health care ethics at Protestant Theological University
*Marianne Snijdewind, medical ethics researcher at Amsterdam University Medical Center
Assistant producers: Franziska Stadlmayer, Molly Jackson, Kyle Lahucik
Supervising producer: Rosemary Belson
Visual editor: Grace Lett
I wish this was available in the UK
Well i agree with this .. I just wanna go peacefully..
Honestly, I dont see how anyone has the right to tell someone when and how they are going to die. We are ALL going to die. Dying is a natural process. Everyone does it. I think we all should be given the respect to choose.
Tera you go girl !!
Tell it to everyone !!!
Especially if they're an inbred bible thumper !!!
They need the most help with this. This freedom thing !!
Read my comments you will understand !!
And then get back to me on that ok ????
@@bobbibo4346you're the one who supports people killing themselves. who's the bad guy again?
Your promoting suicide and self harm
I lost my mother two weeks ago. I lost the only person that gave meaning to my life. Nothing motivates me. I really don't desire to live beyond 50. There is nothing that ties me to life anymore. I have been thinking about assisted dying for some years because I knew the day my mother would leave me was would come and I have been well aware that there won't be happiness and fullfillmebt in my life. While some may think it is sad to think about ending one's life for me it would be a gift, it would a release. Would I qualify for assisted dying in The Netherlands? Does the Netherlands provide assisted dying for foreigners?
how are you doing now? I hope you are coping ok
I am proud of my country, that this is a possibility. What are the other otions? Suicide and leaving family and friend behind in shock and indeed traumatizing others.
It's not an easy path. Please do not think if you ask for it, you get it. It's a very intense path, where you will have therapy, conversations with 3 different physicians and they all have to agree.
Where is the documentary referred to?
The only reason Theo says what he says is because he’s religious. Mental suffering can be just as hard as physical suffering but that’s not being taken into account.
Everyone should have the right to make that decision . When u feel the time is right. My self dealing with extreme anxiety!!! Why should I not have that option. There is no cure for my anxiety
Assisted suicide is not a genocide. It is a choice.
@Beata Anna Nowak. Are you making money from this new craze? Assisted Suicide is Murder by any other name.
@@B1N4RYGH0ST IT IS NOT. I AM BEGGING FOR IT IN WRITING. SOMETIMES WHEN A GIRL GETS RAPED THEY SAY SHE ASKED FOR IT. DID SHE REQUEST IT IN WRITING? I HAVE THE RIGHT TO MY OWN BODY AND SOUL. IN YOUR MIND IT IS MURDER. DEATH PENALTY IS MURDER. DO YOU OPPOSE IT? ABORTION IS A MURDER? DO YOU OPPOSE IT. FOR SOME REASON WHEN SOMEONE REQUESTS TO END THEY OWN LIFE YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT. KACZYNSKI AND KACZYNSKI DIED IN A PLAIN CRASH. WHAT IF IT WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT? WERE THEY MURDERED.
@@B1N4RYGH0ST NO. I WOULD LIKE TO DIE. ONCE IN MY LIFE I AM ASKING FOR SOMETHING FOR MYSELF. SINCE 1992 I AM A RED CARPET FOR NAZI USA. IN THE END THEY CAN EUTHANIZE ME.
@@B1N4RYGH0ST MY NEIGHBOR HE WAS CRAZY. CRAZY ANDY. FAT SHORT MALE WITH RED HAIR. I DON'T KNOW HOW HE DIED. HE WAS CRAZY. THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE SAID. NOW ANOTHER FAT AND SHORT MALE FROM IRAN LIVES IN HIS HOUSE.
WHERE DO I LIVE? NATION OF BULLIES. THEY ARE WHITE, BLACK, YELLOW, RED, PINK, SHORT, TALL, FAT, SKELETONS - NATION OF BULLIES
@@B1N4RYGH0ST I JUST WANT TO END MY LIFE. IT HAS A CRAZY NAME MERCY KILLING. PEOPLE GET MURDERED THIS VERY SECOND RIGHT NOW AND THEY WANT TO LIVE SOMEWHERE, MAYBE IN NYC SOMEONE GOT MURDERED YESTERDAY OR THIS MORNING. YOU WILL NOT EVEN KNOW OR CARE BECAUSE THEY DO MURDER PEOPLE IN NYC.
If someone doesn't want to keep living, it is merciful to aid them in a peaceful, painless death. How can anyone not understand why someone might just want to be done with life?
We understand why. That doesn't make it right.
@@warthunder9155 you don't understand, or you wouldn't have said that
@@warthunder9155 It isn't your place to decide whether someone else decision to die is right or wrong.
Do you support their new law to euthanize children ages 4-12?
The stock photos show Belgium
Nothing new. I'm relieved it wasn't Austrians wearing Lederhosen this time *cough* David Mitchell's video *cough*
Correct, and they were the second country to legalize euthanasia.
Is this available to foreign nationals
No you have to be a resident, you could look into dignitas of exit in Switzerland for that
His life his choice and still very empathetic until the end he didn't want to cause trauma to anyone jumping into traffic ECT. RIP kind Sr.
His choice was not ok in the eyes of God.
@@RBLong0928 I don't give a fuck about some make-believe "god" not everyone is religious people have the right to die if they do not want to live "god" does not rule or control me.
@@RBLong0928 You don't know that and have no proof of that.
It is the persons right to consider what is best for him or her. Here in Ireland immediately euthenasia is mentioned,there is a furore by religious people who want to live everyone else's life for them yet I know for a fact that there is crude of euthenasia in some nursing homes, it should be legalized so that yhosr ebo do not want yo Vail of itwont have it forced on them and those who want it can make avail if it.
A great friend of mine who was in a nursing home for years,unable to walk, Last year they devoped Civic from which they never really recovered, were leading a misdfable life. Said gk MD on numerous occasions she wished she was gone. Out of the blue the nursing home got in touch with HDR very caring brother,no one could be more caring, and said her doctor wished to speak to him. There and then on the phone,straight off the cuff. He spoke to him,the doctor proposed taming the patient off all her medication even s drink she took which she imagined or it did ease her pain, he also proposed withdrawing all food and water, but if she suffered pain would give her morphine, I am an advocate of euthenasia,but I was horrified at the proposal ,the patient had no say in the matter,and I.felt her relative was sta.peded into giving his permission. I still visited,patient didn't seem any worse, but I noticed her hrine bottle contained urine if a very odd colour and texture very thick and apricot coloured. She died unconcikus in less than a month, that certainly was euthanasia under another name,if legal ejthanadua was available the poor creature. could have been put adldep with a simple injection,instead of death through starvation and thirst,but of course they salved their warped conscience by convincing themselves that they didn't actively kill her, they did kill her by withdrawal of nutriments but without her permission.
This text went off before I could edit it,but I'm sure you can make out the drift, the patient had no say whatsoever in her proposed death. It was taken out of her hands and her caring relative was stampeded into the decision of starving her to death, and hastening the process by the administration of morphine,which we all know weakens the heart. Far better for religious people to be honest and let properly administered euthenadia be administered with the patients full permission, filmed if necessary, instead of taking her life in such a cruel way,it was obvious by the contents of the Urine bottle that she suffered even semi consciously,you only had to look at the contents, far better to have let her enjoy her sip of water till the end and whatever food she could eat.I was told day before they decided to do her in,that she had eaten a weetabix for tea. true or not I don't know. In a proper honest place,she could have had a say yea or nay in her demise and if she wanted to be let go it could have been carried out in a more humane way. I am sick of religious run nursing homes making up their own morals. The patient should have had the last say not some disgruntled nun,nurse.or doctor with the hump. I am disgusted with the whole performance, you wouldn't get me into that nursing home if you paid me,and if it happened there,and I can vouch for it, rest assured it is happening in other care homes. Bring in legal euthenesia,where the patient can decide for themselves,or leave a living will,if they are against euthenasia,don't give it to them.
ELCKO WAS RIGHT
LIFE IS TRULY MEANINGLESS
U HAVE TO WORK
GO TO SCHOOL
EAT...BATHE YOURSELF ETC
THEN THE WHOLE VICIOUS CYCLE REPEATS ITSELF
You are very sad. Your life is sad. I hope you learn to be happy
life indeed has no meaning unless you give it a meaning
Well what do you expect it to be? School is how you learn, work is how you make a living and both are how you meet and interact with people.
@@californiadoll6273
LIFE IS TRULY VERY HARD...POVERTY PROSTITUTION HUMAN XPLOITATION FAMINE DROUGHT ANIMAL ABUSE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CORRUPTION GREED JEALOUSY RACISM THE LIST GOES ON
HUMANS ARE HORRIBLE PEOPLE
SOME PEOPLE HAVE EVERYTHING WHILE SOME HAVE NOTHING
HOW CAN PEOPLE USE SOMEONE ELSE'S BODY TO DERIVE PLEASURE FROM IT???
THEY NEED MONEY DESPERATELY L TO SURIVE
MANY TO FUEL THEIR ADDICTIONS
HUMANS ARE SO DAMN WICKED
@@jacobfitzsimmons6926
OH JACOB...I CONTEMPLATED SUICIDE SO MANY TIMES
EVEN NOW
I PLAN TO PURCHASE BARBITURATES
THE ONLY THING THAT IS STOPPING ME FROM EXECUTING MY PLAN IS
I DONT KNOW WHETHER THE SUPPLIER IS GENUINE
BECAUSE IF SUBSTANCE IS NOT PURE THEN I M IN BIG TROUBLE
RESULT:COMA
I bet he's an antinatalist! He was lucky to be born in that part of the world where a peaceful exit is an option. Most of us can only look afar with envy.
We have become so incredibly soft. It’s the total easy way out.
It must be nice you can glibly walk through life.
Maybe mdma treatment or other kinds of “mind altering” drugs could be helpful in treatment with some of the people suffering
So basically he was a genius and he was failed by his parents and teachers.
No, he was not failed by anyone. He was living with unbelievable suffering. Mental illness often doesn’t have a simple cause. He was in constant pain and no treatment available to us could make his life bearable. It was decided it was inhumane to force this man to suffer, to be tortured by his own mind. He and his doctor decided that death was preferable to the constant unending anguish he was living in.
@@SemenTheSailor I don't gamble, but I would bet if he were to loose some of that weight and find more purpose in his life, he wouldn't have chosen the cowards way out.
You just don’t understand
@@alexdrown3564 What don't I understand? Euthanasia? He chose a cowardly way Out. My Mam is almost 91 years old, she's in a nursing home, and they won't allow me visit because I'm not dumb enough to roll my sleeve up. Tell me what I don't understand?
@@B1N4RYGH0ST
YES..U DONT UNDERSTAND
I AM EXACTLY LIKE ELKCO
EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP + FEEL DEEPLY DEPRESSED BECAUSE I AM STILL ALIVE
People who insist others continue living in agony, because of their religious beliefs are just pure evil.
Hopeless fool
If you get hit by a car and die, that wasn't your choice. If you get told you have a terminal illness, it is entirely your choice how long you fight it or IF you choose to. Mental illenss is still taboo to most doctors, but the world needs to accept that people with mental illness suffer. Personally, I don't want another 25 years of physical life if it's full of pain so that is shit criteria. Medically assisted death is a far more dignified way to die than a whole lot of "natural" deaths (ie. rotting way, writhing in pain with family watching). Switzerland has known this for decades. People shouldn't assign their morality to another person's life. And if anyone reads this comment, no, I do not have a terminal illness or a mental illness at the time of this post. I just belive in human rights.
Man vs God
Dad was horrible in the interview, he talked alot but said NOTHING! Interview the mom instead.
What about when someone else decided that someone should die without the consent of the sick person
JM///// I think that is called murder.
Juliet Majani no one is asking for that !!!
You have to ask to be killed. !!
They just don't do it !
Cuz there's no money in it for them unless you are alive !!!
And sick !!!
Now do you get it ???
@Eddie Murray At this moment, the rules are too strict and they contradict each other. It's horrible.
If someone decides they want to die, in the case of severe Alzheimers and well...them becoming a shell of who they once were..sitting a chair and screaming to themselves and crying, then that gets noted.
But if they then indeed get Alzheimers and go; 'I don't want to die, no no..ducklings..lalala no dying, lala, ducklings' then you can no longer euthanize the person.
Even though they wanted to, when they were 'there.' And now, they no longer can think straight and you suddenly listen to them and ignore their former wishes.
that happens so rarely... it would do more harm to more people to entirely ban euthanasia.
@@echochamber1234 Honestly, they used to have laws that prevented people's euthanasia-wishes from happening, once their dementia had set in and they couldn't speak anymore, because 'what if they meant 'no' after all?'
And so, people that had been *very* clear on the wishes, were still ignored. I believe they changed that law today, finally.
I have to agree with Boer. The numbers prove there is a slippery slope and it frightens me that it has, in some cases, been pushed.
I’m doing a research 🧐 on this because I want to die but I don’t want to harm myself
Death is the ultimate harming yourself.
Why?
@@ekd5213 I feel the same way..
In other words earth and life is rubbish
Soylent Green
No Belgium is wrong and has satanic child abuse going on there too ,some of them are morally bankrupt like a good few western countries
Belgium is the best.
Isn't this about the Netherlands?
Belgische gebakken aardappelen, de beste ter wereld.
@@nomebear I don't understand your language/tongue.
Nie rozumiem twojego języka.
NO COMPRENDE
@@nomebear Belgian fried potatoes are the best in the world.
@@nomebear Dr. Jack Kevorkian went to jail for euthanizing people. Janet Adkins was his first patient. People in the USA are asking to be euthanized all the time. Nazi USA.
Google.com
Why is it that there are so many people who have the odds stacked against them, choose to go on living? I know of men who have lost their entire families, their friends, have major health challenges, deal with addictions, poverty, are living in poverty, are homeless, and yet they have not intention of taking their own lives.
nomebear because they are stupid inbred bible thumpen morons that's why !!!!
Mental illness ain’t easy and life ain’t easy please don’t judge others, no one truly knows what someone else is going thru, we all deserve peace and freedom, I understand them wanting that
Because they are not suffering with a mental illness which causes suicidal tendencies. Some people can have nothing and be the happiest person on the planet. Someone can have everything money, fame, power and be suicidal. It doesn’t matter what they have if they have. Mental illness doesn’t care who you are. Spreading shit like this just discredits people that suffer from mental illness.
You don't just "get" assisted suicide...you don't just get it when you're in a sad situation in life.
They have multiple checks and it takes ages, for everyone to conclude you are indeed suffering with no change of it ever getting better.
And even then, it takes another few specialists and sometimes, it takes 4 years for someone to decide you might get a pill, in the future.
In the case of someone with stage 4 cancer, they're usually already dead before it's decided. The rules are way too strict at this point.
@@bobbibo4346 Yes!
jesus what an editing mess
Sorry but if the parents paid attention to their kid and gotten him help , maybe SOMEONE could give him a reason not to do it. I am all for death with dignity but I see total parental neglect.
You don’t think the mountains of doctors you have to see before you are even *considered* to be a candidate for euthanasia offered him help? They exhaust every treatment plan available before they consider euthanasia. This man received extensive treatment all of which proved totally ineffective. Your comment is ignorant and discredits all the pain this man had to suffer through before he was able to seek relief from his pain.
The treatment offered is worthless. His life could have been very different under different circumstances.
Existential dread and societal ills are things parents cannot fix.
You should watch the documentary. You will never see a more loving father, mother and sister.
I'll get slammed for this but I don't think he has a legitimate reason for euthanasia. He is depressed because of his weight and didn't care to deal with it. He is not dying with dignity.
Lifelong depression manifests physically in many ways. Gaining weight may also have been a side effect of psychiatric meds
Not slammed, but you are wrong. I know his story and he was already struggling with life as a child. You should watch the documentary 't Is Goed Zo or his portret on Broedplaatsz. I know you will have a different opinion after seeing that.
@@Marion-py2gl I get it but Jesus is the one who determines the time. And I have had plenty depression.
I watch your recommendation. Thank you for sharing.
You are phenomenal at stating your opinion as fact. You add to the confusion of the world, and the stupidity of the human species.
@@no_one_211 yeah yeah sure buddy
suicide is horrible
This is what happens in a Godless existence.
B Martin a godless existence is all we have ever had.
Because there is no god !!! Moron !!!
@@bobbibo4346 //// You do not know that. No one does. You can FEEL there is no God, but that neither proves nor disproves his existence.
Those of you who live in a conformity with of a godless world are free to bitch and wine of ur right to die. If you had any beliefs and stop telling me u are a fool. U might see the light and live. Live in darkness for all I care.
Enjoy your suffering in your God-filled existence.
@Self hating Alabamian /// Can you not just up and move?
I am against euthanasia. Espacially when it comes to depression. No doctor will tell You that depression us not curable. Also, this man should have been tested for ADD and could have benefitted from medication. Also, I dont want to blame anyone but it is clear to me that he wasnt given the right support from the surroundings. I fully understand that it is difficult but everyone can sit down and listen and try to help him build a network with professional support. This is one reason euthanasia is dangerous and unethical. It justifies suicide and could cause deaths that otherwise wouldnt happen. This man was not terminally ill. The main reasons for asking euthansia is not terminal illness or pain. It is curable conditions or a sense of loss of dignity. These are problems we should be able to take care of as a society and not make suicide more accessible. I am not arguing from a religious perspective and I dont mean to undermine anyone's suffering. But Euthanasia is a dangerous path to walk as a society. In Belgium kids are being allowed assisted suicide and in Canada mentall illness is sufficient to get help to die according to court ruling. It will not stop people from keep suffering. We introduce something into our society that we cant control and in the end already vulnurable people will pay the price. The topic is much more problematic than what is discussed in media. Euthanasia and assisted dying has been glorified and I deeply disagree with it.
it's wrong and God will judge you
BW///// Too much bible is rotting your brain.
That's fine. The individual's faith SHOULD be part of this discussion. You have every right to choose your own path, as does everyone else. Ultimately we make many decisions in our life. Whether these are right or wrong... well, that's up to the individual and their understanding of their God and/or place in the universe.
Beverley Wells I AM Not AFRAID!!!!!!
GOD Doesn't EXIST !!!!
And p .s . Santaclause isn't real
No Easter bunny !!!
Shit your haven a bad day aren't you ????
Sorry sometimes the truth hurts !!!!
@@bobbibo4346 //// Looks like you are still pretending your opinion is a fact.
@@Tailsthef0x
That's not the case
He should have changed his lifestyle, lost some weight to start off with. Exercise does wonders… he was lazy and selfish