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		<title>Dutch doctors&#8217; group urges wider reasons for euthanasia</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/09/09/dutch-doctors-group-urges-wider-reasons-for-euthanasia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new position paper just published by the Dutch Physicians Association (KNMG) says unbearable and lasting suffering should not be the only criteria physicians consider when a patient requests euthanasia. The KNMG says the new guidelines will clarify the responsibilities, possibilities and limitations that physicians have within the regulations of the 2002 euthanasia law (Termination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Dutch group campaigns for legal elderly suicide</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/02/08/new-dutch-group-campaigns-for-legal-elderly-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch people over 70 years of age who feel tired of life should have the right to professional help in ending it, a citizens&#8217; initiative in the Netherlands calling itself &#8220;Out of Free Will&#8221; demands. It will start collecting signatures in support of this proposed change in Dutch legislation, hoping to place the matter firmly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most dying patients in Holland prefer euthanasia to assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/12/01/most-dying-patients-in-holland-prefer-euthanasia-to-assisted-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008 the Dutch controlling committees received 2331 declarations of which 2146 were cases of euthanasia, 152 cases of assisted suicide and 33 cases of a combination of the two.]]></description>
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		<title>Taboo on mental health assisted suicides remains</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/11/25/taboo-on-mental-health-assisted-suicides-remains/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/11/25/taboo-on-mental-health-assisted-suicides-remains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Euthanasia still a taboo for mental patients &#8211; even in the Netherlands &#8220;People suffering from an incurable mental disease have the same legal right to euthanasia as physically terminally ill patients in the Netherlands, but they almost never get it.&#8221; Practitioners reviewed the situation of mental patients and euthanasia at a symposium organized by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty and Death:  A manifesto</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/03/23/liberty-and-death-a-manifesto/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2009/03/23/liberty-and-death-a-manifesto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty and Death A manifesto concerning an individual’s right to choose to die In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty –- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing. Whereas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terminal sedation in Holland more used than euthanasia</title>
		<link>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/03/21/terminal-sedation-in-holland-more-used-than-euthanasia/</link>
		<comments>http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2008/03/21/terminal-sedation-in-holland-more-used-than-euthanasia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ergo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terminally-ill patients in the Netherlands increasingly receive drugs to render them unconscious until death, according to a study that suggests people are substituting deep sedation for legal euthanasia. The researchers found that 1,800 people &#8212; 7.1 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2005 &#8212; were drugged into so-called continuous deep sedation shortly before [...]]]></description>
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