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Belgium Goes over the Brink: Belgian Lawmakers OK Assisted Suicide Bill.(Brief Article)
On May 16, after long debate, Belgium's lower house approved an assisted suicide bill. As it is not required that the patient be terminal, the new measure even goes beyond the widely abused laws of neighboring Netherlands.
The House of Representatives approved the bill 86-51, with 10 abstentions. The Senate had already approved it last year.
The bill defines assisted suicide as an act practiced by a third party intentionally ending the life of a person at his request. Under the bill:
* Doctors may end the life of patients who have reached the legal adult age (18 in Belgium) at their specific, voluntary, and repeated request.
* A patient seeking assisted suicide must be in a "hopeless" medical situation and be constantly suffering physically or psychologically.
* If the person is not in the terminal phase of his illness, his doctor must consult with a second doctor, either a psychiatrist or a specialist in the disease concerned.
* At least one month must pass between the written request and carrying out the act. Similar "safeguards" have been frequently ignored in the Netherlands, fostering widely documented cases of unrequested euthanasia.
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