The Federalist: Dutch Doctor Exonerated After Euthanizing An Unwilling Patient

Dutch Doctor Exonerated After Euthanizing An Unwilling Patient
By Georgi Boorman. June 23, 2020

The Dutch doctor who euthanized a 74-year old dementia patient against her will and was exonerated of all charges gave a televised interview recently, in which she defended her actions as “for the best.”

The 2016 incident caused an uproar, in no small part because the doctor began the euthanization process by secretly drugging her patient’s coffee. The horror didn’t end there. When the patient woke up and resisted the lethal injection, now-retired geriatric specialist Marinou Arends asked a relative to hold her down so she could administer the fatal dose.

The patient had two previous directives stating she wanted to be euthanized “when the time was ripe,” but had explicitly declined to be euthanized three times leading up to her death. To Arends, however, ending the patient’s suffering was more important than doing what the patient said she wanted.
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The Dutch Supreme Court ruled on this case that patients with advanced dementia, who are legally incompetent, can be euthanized according to advanced directives. Whether this cautions people against giving advanced consent ahead of dementia, knowing they are the mercy of their physician, remains to be seen.

But if being unhappy is “unbearable suffering,” then the expectation for people who’ve written advance directives, particularly the elderly and sick, is clear: Smile and don’t complain, or risk lethal injection.

In other words, if you make it in any way legal for the medical system to kill you or "pull the plug", then doctors can literally get away with murder. After all, once she's dead, nobody can know what was the actual desire of an old woman with dementia, so the doctors can make up whatever they want and the courts will uphold it.

Yes, I know this is in Denmark, but can anyone seriously believe that the same sitation couldn't possibly happen anywhere else, including the United States? I know I wouldn't trust a US court (including the Supreme Court) to uphold my right to life if doing so should be politically incorrect.