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It’s come to this

The two men, 45, from the Antwerp region were both born deaf and sought euthanasia after finding that they would also soon go blind.

The pair told doctors that they were unable to bear the thought of not being able to see each other again.

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This is a terrible story.

Blake on January 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM

How long before it stops being voluntary and starts becoming mandatory?

Oh wait – it already has.

Rebar on January 14, 2013 at 3:45 PM

Speechless.

portlandon on January 14, 2013 at 3:46 PM

Surprisingly, I am okay with this.

Women have the right to kill their unborn children on little more than a whim. The US Government uses a half-billion of taxpayer dollars to help sustain and even promote it.

I think everyone should have the right to die – kill themselves if they wish – but not on a whim. After some counseling and in a Doctor’s attendance is just fine and dandy though. Sure does save on stray bullets and loved ones making ghastly surprise discoveries.

You wanna die and do it ‘legally’? Wanna die and just don’t have the nerve?

Go to Belgium.

Death tourism is booming over there.

Go for it.

SD Tom on January 14, 2013 at 3:49 PM

In 2011, it emerged that people killed by euthanasia in Belgium are having their organs harvested for transplant surgery.

In China they go to the homes of ‘suspects’ of any kind, to harvest.

How soon bef. the socialists the world over will force their opposition to be…

Schadenfreude on January 14, 2013 at 3:54 PM

Socialists tabled a new legal amendment that will allow the euthanasia of children and Alzheimer’s sufferers.

Ummmm…..wow.

joekenha on January 14, 2013 at 3:58 PM

The case is unusual because neither of the men was terminally ill nor suffering physical pain.

If this is being progressive…I want no part of it.

CW on January 14, 2013 at 3:58 PM

In 2011, it emerged that people killed by euthanasia in Belgium are having their organs harvested for transplant surgery.

In China they go to the homes of ‘suspects’ of any kind, to harvest.

How soon bef. the socialists the world over will force their opposition to be…

Schadenfreude on January 14, 2013 at 3:54 PM

I suspect there was something behind the Hippocratic Oath. I suspect the fear of a conflict of interest was part of Hippocrates’ motivation. We now ignore the perform no abortion part and are working towards negating the do no harm part as well. We have a living oath. Weirdly it leads to dying.

CW on January 14, 2013 at 4:02 PM

In China they go to the homes of ‘suspects’ of any kind, to harvest.

How soon bef. the socialists the world over will force their opposition to be…

Schadenfreude on January 14, 2013 at 3:54 PM

In an old scifi short story from the 60s you got your organs harvested for committing any crime. The kicker was at the end when you found out that the heinous crime committed by the main character was jay walking.

Dr. Frank Enstine on January 14, 2013 at 4:06 PM

watch the BBC series on Auschwitz.. its on netflix.. seems informative on this very topic..

gatorboy on January 14, 2013 at 4:20 PM

At the very end:

Last December, the Belgium-based European Institute of Bioethics published a report raising concerns over “the absence of any effective control” over euthanasia and “ever-widening interpretation” of the law.

The institute noted that over 10 years and 5,500 euthanasia cases not one had ever been referred to the police for investigation.

Daily Mirror on the same story:

Just days after the twins were killed Belgium’s ruling Socialists tabled a legal amendment which would allow the euthanasia of children and Alzheimer’s sufferers.

Socialism is a political philosophy of death—not just of an economy or liberty—it destroys everything it touches. It’s view of who man is reduces him to random meaninglessness.

INC on January 14, 2013 at 4:29 PM

Now We Know… Closet Communists Destroyed Detroit

“If there is any wonder why Detroit often resembles an Eastern Bloc municipality, consider that for 19 years the mayor who ran the city economically and socially was a closet Marxist.”

Coleman Young, the mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1993, was able to “move forward as he did” thanks in part to training he got from the “party”—that is, the Communist Party. Young was, in fact, a secret member of Communist Party USA, as shown by several sources, including Cold War historians Ron Radosh, John Earl Haynes, and Harvey Klehr.

INC on January 14, 2013 at 4:32 PM

And note the doctors’ ghoulish comments — that it was a beautiful thing, they were peaceful.

Sick and twisted. God help us.

Richard Romano on January 14, 2013 at 4:36 PM

Hm. It’s hard to judge one way or another as it’s hard to even imagine what it would be like to be both blind and deaf. That’s a lot of isolation and sensory deprivation. Don’t know if I could do it myself.

But how do you get consent from an Alzheimer’s patient or a demented person? That’s extremely scary.

kim roy on January 14, 2013 at 4:51 PM

INC on January 14, 2013 at 4:32 PM

Coleman’s marxist history was no secret. I took a Labor and Politics course at Wayne State (downtown Detroit) 20 years ago, the Professor admit in class the he, the professor, was a member of the communist party and he mentioned frequently that Coleman had also been a member. A statement that he stopped repeating after I developed the habit of pointing out what a mess the city was right after he would mention it.

Flange on January 14, 2013 at 4:54 PM

Creepy, creepy Europe.

ExpressoBold on January 14, 2013 at 5:37 PM