Catholic Herald
The number of dementia patients killed by euthanasia has risen fourfold over the past five years
A Dutch euthanasia regulator has quit her post in protest at the killings of patients suffering from dementia.
Berna van Baarsen, a medical ethicist, said she could not support “a major shift” in the interpretation of her country’s euthanasia law to endorse lethal injections for increasing numbers of dementia patients.
She has now resigned from one of Holland’s five regional assessment committees set up to oversee the provision of euthanasia. . . [Full Text]