Not content with thousands of euthanasia and assisted suicide deaths a year, the Dutch are about to have access to a suicide guide. From the story:
A scientific guide to DIY suicide is to go on sale in the Netherlands to help people end their lives quickly and painlessly…It contains detailed information on using drugs as well as committing suicide by starvation, including the quickest and least painful way to do it.
The author is a true villain in the modern story of euthanasia and assisted suicide, a psychiatrist who assisted the suicide of a grieving mother—leading to the Dutch Supreme Court’s ruling that validated assisted suicide for the depressed:
Author and psychiatrist Boudewijn Chabot said: “Doctors learn little about this subject during their training. This book is for people who want to make their own decisions about ending their own lives.”
The Dutch have a high suicide rate already:
There are about 4,400 suicides a year [which I assume excludes the thousands of euthanasia deaths] in Holland, broadly the same as in England and Wales, even though it has barely a quarter of the population. Euthanasia is now legal there but with strict rules.
Strict rules!? Oh, my head hurts.
And the moral of the story? The culture of death is like heroin: Once you start to mainline, it is never enough.
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