French Doctors Request Euthanasia

The French newspaper 'Nouvel Observateur', (English language link), carries a petition from over 2,000 French physicians advocating for a normalization of Euthanasia laws.

In a statement published in the paper the doctors declare that they have assisted in the active Euthanasia of patients, 'Because disease was certain to defeat medical procedures, because in spite of treatment, physical and psychological suffering had rendered the life of a patient intolerable, we medical staff, have consciously helped patients to die with decency'.

They ask that the French laws be changed to reflect the laws in neighboring countries of Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands in which active Euthanasia is legal.

'Some forms of pain resist," it quoted Catherine D., a rural doctor, as saying. "If you have to end them by inducing death, I'll do it, even if I don't like it," she said. "Out of respect for the person, who becomes, for a few hours, a person in their own right and not a medical object."

This bears repeating: 'Out of respect for the person, who becomes, for a few hours, a person in their own right and not a medical object'.

Bravo.

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