Editor: I鈥檓 responding to , 鈥淢any safeguards in proposed euthanasia bill,鈥� (The Times, March 31).
There are no safeguards once you legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. We can use Belgium as a model because they have legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide.
In Belgium, terminally ill is not well-defined and could mean anything. If you have a mental illness, you can be euthanized. If children are deemed terminally ill, they can be euthanized. It is questionable whether all patients give their consent to be euthanized. Doctors are supposed to report all euthanasia deaths, but not all are reported.
Nurses are not allowed to euthanize patients but there are some that do it. We need better palliative care in Canada 鈥� not euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Dean Clark,
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