A Staggering Report on Euthanasia in Belgium

It raises several questions and worries, particularly with regards to the fact that several children have been eliminated.

Although the number of deaths by euthanasia was “only” 349 in 2004, it increased to 2,028 in 2016, then to 2,309 in 2017. In other words, 6 or 7 people die every day in 2018 in the country, amidst general indifference, of an IV injection of thiopental, followed, when necessary, by a dose of curare to guarantee lethal muscular paralysis.

The seventy-odd pages of the report reveal the horrors of legal euthanasia. For example, of the 4,337 cases of assisted suicide recorded over the two years in question, 15% did not die naturally for several months or even several years and were left needing alternative treatments in palliative care.

Another element mentioned is the nature of the sicknesses that led to the requests for euthanasia. While in most cases (64%) it was a cancerous tumor, the cases of polypathologies are increasing at a fast and steady pace (16.4%).

Patients with polypathologies are either patients with multiple risk factors – for example, arterial hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia – or patients with several chronic pathologies, such as coronary insufficiency, arthritis, or depression.

In 2016 and 2017, 77 patients requested euthanasia because of mental illnesses. These include personality disorders, severe depression, anxiety and schizophrenia. One must wonder under what sort of mentoring these patients made the decision....

Lastly, although most cases were patients between the ages of 60 and 80, there were nonetheless three murders of minors, aged 9, 11, and 17.

Death in kid gloves has become an institution in Belgium: how much longer until it spreads to other countries?

Euthanasia that directly causes the death of the patient is always a crime, for killing is forbidden; it is an insult to God, and it is never permitted to use evil means even for a good end.