UK Doctor Peter Saunders of
the Christian Medical Fellowship said that the Dutch experience shows that
doctor-assisted death is impossible to effectively regulate. He added that, “euthanasia in the Netherlands
is virtually out of control.” Overall
deaths by euthanasia have increased by 151% in seven years. The Dutch regulator, Theo Boer, says that it
is likely to hit the 6,000/year mark in 2014. These figures represent 3% of all
deaths, but if one adds the cases of terminal sedation, where patients are
given a cocktail of sedatives and narcotics before food and fluids are
withdrawn, the percentage rises to 12.3% of all deaths in the Netherlands.
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