Keith Sanborn on Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:08:50 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> The Vegetative Prince Will Not Wake Up: Dutch Prince Friso medical ethics and the ordeal of social inequality


I was incredulous myself. Google Remenlink report and you will find the numbers are closer to 6,000 involuntary terminations of life

On Aug 28, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Karin Spaink <karin@spaink.net> wrote:

> On Aug 28, 2012, at 06:12 , martin hardie wrote:
> 
>> he figures i refer to were from the first years of the Dutch law. They
>> were from the 1990s.
> 
> That's quite unlikely. In the 1990s, the number of euthanasia cases varied between 2300 and 3200. If there were officially 2000 cases of unwanted euthanasia per year, as you claim, the law would *never* have passed.
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