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Prayers requested for both Dutch and Belgian Senate Dutch Legislators: Pause at Brink of Euthanasia Abyss.(Brief Article)
Last November, when the lower house of the Dutch parliament voted 104-40 to legalize euthanasia, the Senate's approval was considered a mere formality. [See NRL News, December 2000, page 24.]
But the recent conviction of general practitioner Dr. Wilfred van Oijen for having performed an act of euthanasia on an elderly woman in 1997 has reignited the debate. No longer is passage by the upper house seen as a perfunctory "rubber stamp."
On March 3 a Netherlands court decided that the Netherlands' current provisions that allow doctors to administer lethal doses do not cover the 1997 death of an 84-year-old patient. Van Oijen was prosecuted, according to published accounts, for having "failed to follow some basic euthanasia principles."
In other words Van Oijen had neither discussed euthanasia with his patient, nor did she request death, nor did Van Oijen consult another doctor.
Van Oijen was already well known to those knowledgeable about the euthanasia debate.
In 1994 Van Oijen achieved considerable notoriety for a documentary film, Death on Request (shown on Dutch television), which shows him actually performing euthanasia on a man with Lou Gehrig's disease. The film shows Van Oijen injecting a barbiturate into Kees van Wendel de Joode, followed by a muscle relaxant.
Ironically, though now officially guilty of murder, Van Oijen will go scot-free. The court said that although he had made an "error of judgment," Van Oijen had done what he thought best for his patient and therefore the court imposed no prison sentence.
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