{"id":3424,"date":"2017-01-09T04:50:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exitinternational.net\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2017-01-09T04:50:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T20:20:18","slug":"dutch-doctors-unwilling-to-give-euthanasia-to-dementia-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euthanasia.net\/exit\/dutch-doctors-unwilling-to-give-euthanasia-to-dementia-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Doctors Unwilling to give Euthanasia to Dementia Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doctors still do not dare to perform euthanasia on people with severe dementia who have made living wills expressing their wish to die, the Volkskrant<\/em> said on Friday.<\/p>\n

A year ago, the justice and health ministries said the guidelines for performing euthanasia on people with severe dementia had been relaxed a little so that patients can be helped to die even if they incapable of making their current feelings known.<\/p>\n

However, they do have to have signed a euthanasia declaration with their family doctor before they became seriously ill to be considered for help in dying.<\/p>\n

\u2018In such cases, a doctor may carry out euthanasia, even if the patient cannot make this clear by word or gesture. But there must be a written euthanasia request which the patient completed earlier,\u2019 the new guidelines state.<\/p>\n

Jacob Kohnstamm, chairman of the euthanasia monitoring body, told the paper in the past year there had been just three such cases.<\/p>\n

\u2018There is no talk of growth,\u2019 Kohnstamm said.<\/p>\n

Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands under strict conditions.<\/p>\n

For example, the patient must be suffering unbearable pain and the doctor must be convinced the patient is making an informed choice. The opinion of a second doctor is also required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doctors still do not dare to perform euthanasia on people with severe dementia who have made living wills expressing their wish to die, the Volkskrant said on Friday. A year ago, the justice and health ministries said the guidelines for performing euthanasia on people with severe dementia had been relaxed a little so that patients […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n