{"id":1959904,"date":"2023-06-28T21:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T01:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dutch-citizens-seeking-euthanasia-cite-debilitating-autism-and-intellectual-disabilities\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T21:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T01:36:47","slug":"dutch-citizens-seeking-euthanasia-cite-debilitating-autism-and-intellectual-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dutch-citizens-seeking-euthanasia-cite-debilitating-autism-and-intellectual-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch citizens with autism and disabilities seek euthanasia due to severe challenges."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdutch-citizens-seeking-euthanasia-cite-debilitating-autism-and-intellectual-disabilities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1959904&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by REMKO DE WAAL\/ANP\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>6:20 PM \u2013 Wednesday, June 28, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Researchers have made a disturbing discovery in the Netherlands. They found that some individuals with autism and intellectual difficulties were lawfully executed in recent years after claiming that they were unable to live regular lives.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The instances examined included five individuals under the age of 30 who cited autism as either the only reason for their desired euthanasia or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-biden-unveils-immigration-bill-leftwing-activists-call-for-end-to-filibuster-to-ram-it-through\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Biden Unveils Immigration Bill, Leftwing Activists Call For End To Filibuster To Ram It Through\">major contributing factor<\/a>. This fact created an unpleasant precedent that some experts believe defies the law\u2019s original intent.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, the Netherlands became the first country to enable physicians to kill patients at their request, provided they satisfied certain criteria, such as having an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dutch-citizens-seeking-euthanasia-cite-debilitating-autism-and-intellectual-disabilities\/\" title=\"Dutch citizens with autism and disabilities seek euthanasia due to severe challenges.\">incurable condition inflicting \u201cunbearable\u201d bodily<\/a> or mental agony.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Dutch government\u2019s euthanasia review group, approximately 60,000 individuals were killed at their own request between 2012 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has recently disclosed records relating to almost 900 of those individuals, the majority of whom were older and had diseases like cancer, Parkinson\u2019s, and ALS, to demonstrate how the regulations are being implemented and interpreted.<\/p>\n<p>Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, a palliative care expert at the U.K.\u2019s Kingston University, and her colleagues examined the papers to discover how Dutch doctors handled euthanasia requests from people with autism or permanent mental disabilities. In May, they published their findings in the journal BJPsych Open.<\/p>\n<p>39 of the 900 people with publicly available case information were either autistic or cognitively challenged. Around eighteen of them were under the age of 50.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the patients mentioned a variety of mental health issues, bodily afflictions, diseases, or aging-related issues as grounds for requesting euthanasia. 30 people also cited loneliness as one of the causes of their excruciating pain. Of the individuals who cited autism or mental challenges, they claimed that their suffering was related to intellectual impairment or feelings of \u201cnot fitting in,\u201d which reportedly caused them to socially isolate and inhibit their coping skills.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt in my mind these people were suffering,\u201d Tuffrey-Wijne said. \u201cBut is society really OK with sending this message, that there\u2019s no other way to help them and it\u2019s just better to be dead?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other nations with legal euthanasia include Belgium, Canada, and Colombia, but the Netherlands is currently the only nation that discloses complete information regarding potentially contentious deaths, offering a clearer insight into rising patterns in assisted dying. Nonetheless, records are still restricted to what doctors decide to document. <\/p>\n<p>As a result, there might be additional characteristics that were not disclosed or circumstances where the patient\u2019s autism or intellectual difficulties were not acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>Since the committee only provides selective documents, it is also difficult to determine the real number of people with autism or intellectual impairments who were killed at their own request.<\/p>\n<p>One of the eight cases mentioned by the researchers was that of an autistic man in his twenties. According to his record, \u201cthe patient had felt unhappy since childhood,\u201d was bullied on a regular basis, and \u201clonged for social contacts but was unable to connect with others.\u201d The unidentified man chose euthanasia after concluding that \u201chaving to live on this way for years was an abomination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An autistic woman in her 30s with borderline personality disorder (BPD) was also included in the data. She was given a seat in an assisted living facility, but her physicians indicated she would not be able to establish connections. BPD is considered by many mental health professionals to cause the most intense emotional pain and distress of any other mental disorder. Those with BPD are often unaffected by mental health medications and are advised to try Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) instead to combat their negative symptoms. However, DBT does not always help the emotional pain either.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Cambridge University\u2019s Autism Research Centre, Simon Baron-Cohen, called it \u201cabhorrent\u201d that people with autism were requesting to die without additional treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that many autistic people suffer from depression, which could possibly impair their capacity to make a legal request to die. He went on to say that it is possible an autistic person requesting death might not understand the complexities of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>A Dutch psychiatrist, Dr. Bram Sizoo, was also troubled that young individuals with autism saw euthanasia as an option for their struggles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cSome of them are almost excited at the prospect of death,\u201d Sizoo said. \u201cThey think this will be the end of their problems and the end of their family\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay informed! 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