X-Message-Number: 4085
From:  (David Stodolsky)
Subject: SCI.CRYONICS: Re: Death in Holland
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 95 20:43:59 +0100 (CET)

 (Ian Taylor) writes:
> Big news last week in Europe. The first televised voluntary death (or
> killing if you prefer) of a 65(?) years old man suffering from a
> terminal illness. His death was by lethal injection performed by a
> doctor in Holland. If my facts are wrong please correct them.

This must have been a rerun. I saw this months ago, when it triggered
some debate in Denmark. This has been going on for some time, even
before the recent change in the law in The Netherlands. Also a Humanist
group in that country has been running a "suicide hotel", where people
who are determined to take their own life can get counselling, and
it they can't be dissuaded, given drugs which reliably terminate bodily
functions.

dss

David S. Stodolsky, PhD,  Euromath Center,  University of Copenhagen
Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. 
 Tel.: +45 38 33 03 30. Fax: +45 38 33 88 80  (C)
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