Post by @ABScientist@forall.social

2026-09-16 03:52 UTC

@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Here's more about the case (Google translate is usually quite good at translating Dutch to English): https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6409188/arts-handelde-zorgvuldig-bij-levensbeeindiging-van-1-jarig-kind.html It seems to have been a combination of severe untreatable epilepsy, insomnia, difficulties swallowing and a high likelihood the child was going to die. Multiple doctors looked at the case and reached the same conclusion that the child was not going to get better.

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@ABScientist@forall.social 2026-09-16 03:55

@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Four people with long Covid opted for and qualified for assisted dying last year. Here the scandal isn't so much the assisted dying, but that really nothing is done to help people with long Covid (while if you wear a mask, you are bullied out of society). https://www.nu.nl/gezondheid/6409284/vier-mensen-kozen-vorig-jaar-voor-euthanasie-vanwege-postcovid.html

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@ABScientist@forall.social 2026-09-16 03:58

@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca More medical details are in this report: https://www.lzalpkcommissie.nl/publicaties/oordelen/lk/2026/lk-2026-001

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@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca 2026-09-16 06:21

@ABScientist@forall.social thank you. I’m uncomfortable with the idea of adults determining that the child’s life was no longer worth living and euthanizing as opposed to providing comfort and supportive care… but obviously I can’t possibly know exactly what this family was going though. It’s just such a fine line into eugenics at this point …

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