A tangled web
Yet another report emerges of the dangerous consequences of legal euthanasia in combination with flawed medical ethics—this time, with three lives (perhaps more) being devastated.
It is reported that a Swiss doctor, working for the euthanasia group ‘Dignitas’, has committed suicide not long after learning that a German woman to whom he recently administered a lethal injection was not terminally ill as he was led to believe, but merely depressed.
It appears that the woman requested a false report from her own GP, saying that she needed it to get sick leave from her employment. The report that stated that she was suffering from a terminal liver disease, was then used to request the assistance of Dignitas to end her life.
As a result, two people are needlessly dead. The GP that provided the false report will probably face prosecution and is presumably sorry for his dishonesty. And no doubt there are many other devastated family members of all these people.
Giving people the “right to end their life with dignity”? It just doesn't seem to be that simple.