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Doctors Killed His Mom Because She Was Depressed. Now He Speaks Out Against Euthanasia.
dailysignal.com Euthanasia is not legal anywhere in the U.S. Internationally, though, it is allowed in Belgium and the Netherlands. Although euthanasia laws originally were designed with terminally ill patients in mind, they have evolved to include persons with mental illness or physical disabilities, those who didn’t or couldn’t consent, and even children. In Belgium, where it is now legal for terminally ill children who are in great pain and have parental consent to end their lives, euthanasia is the cause of about one in 50 deaths. The Lawsuit The issue of euthanasia created a divide among Belgians. Some, such as Tom Mortier, a 38-year-old chemistry professor at Leuven University College in Flanders, say his country has gone too far. On April 19, 2012, Mortier’s mother was put to death at age 65 for what doctors called “untreatable depression.” He is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights over the conditions of her death. Mortier didn’t find out his mother, Godelieva De Troyer, had been euthanized until he received a phone call the next day asking him to retrieve her body from the morgue. “I was completely shocked and traumatized,” Mortier says in an email interview with The Daily Signal. to read more: dailysignal.com
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