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''Legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide in these circumstances is most concerning and would have major implications over time, including changing a society’s values and making suicide prevention programs redundant because people wishing to commit suicide would then be entitled to do so.''

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''In the 1987 preamble to its guidelines for euthanasia, the Royal Dutch Medical Association had written “If there is no request from the patient, then proceeding with the termination of his life is [juristically] a matter of murder or killing, and not of euthanasia.”

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Many people will choose it first choices in many cases

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''Legal requirements were more frequently not met in unreported cases than in reported cases: a written request for euthanasia was more often absent (88% vs. 18%), physicians specialized in palliative care were consulted less often (55% vs. 98%), and the drugs were more often administered by a nurse (41% vs. 0%).''

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''In 17% of cases, the physicians proceeded without consent because they felt that euthanasia was “clearly in the patient’s best interest” and, in 8% of cases, that discussing it with the patient would have been harmful to that patient.''

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A study recently done proves that in the Femish part of Belgium, 66 out of 208 cases of euthanasia happen with the absence of request or constant.

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“Involuntary euthanasia” refers to a situation in which a person possesses the capacity but has not provided consent, and “non-voluntary euthanasia,” to a situation in which a person is unable to provide consent for reasons such as severe dementia or coma''

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In Belgium the rate of non voluntary euthanasia death is 3 times higher than the Netherlands.

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''More than 560 people (0.4% of all deaths) were administered lethal substances without having given explicit consent . For every 5 people euthanized, 1 is euthanized without having given explicit consent.''

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''Despite those safeguards, more than 500 people in the Netherlands are euthanized involuntarily every year.''

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In order for euthanasia to happen the requesting person should give a written consent and must also be competent at the time the request is made.

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''Legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide therefore places many people at risk, affects the values of society over time, and does not provide controls and safeguards.''

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Legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide:the illusion of safeguards and controls. 

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Legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide:the illusion of safeguards and controls. 

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070710/