Germans Get Into The Patient Killing Game

Just what we need, the Germans getting on the pro-deather bandwagon.

German assisted suicide group opens Swiss office

A German group dedicated to helping terminally ill people commit suicide has opened an office in Switzerland in case it is banned at home.

The head of Sterbehilfe Deutschland says proposed legal changes could soon make it illegal for the group to offer its services in Germany. more

Germans Look To Update Euthanasia Laws

The Germans are getting themselves on the slippery slope as they discuss updating laws on euthanasia. From what I can tell, the discussion so far hasn’t really reminded the Germans of their dark, pro-death past.

Germany seeks to clarify euthanasia laws

Debate heats up in Germany as politicians propose a bill that would update the country's laws on euthanasia. Germany is currently in the middle of Europe's extremes on the issue, and Germans themselves are also divided.

Many in Germany are unhappy with current euthanasia legislation, according to a study conducted by pollsters Emnid. The poll found that almost 50 percent of Germans say they want professionals to be able to help people who wish to die. more

Germans Need To Stay Away From Pro-Death Beliefs

The Germans should know better than to be agreeing to anything that looks like they favor active death making.

Half of Germans approve of euthanasia businesses

Nearly half of Germans are in favour of legalising euthanasia businesses, a recent survey revealed. The German parliament is still divided over proposed changes to assisted suicide laws. here

German Doctors = Medical Killers??

Here’s more on German doctors now being allowed to be medicalized killers.

Doctors regain right to decide on suicide aid

German doctors have regained the power to use their own judgement in cases where terminally ill patients want to die – after a court lifted an absolute ban on them leaving such patients with enough drugs to kill themselves.

Previously, doctors who deliberately left a patient with the means to commit suicide did so under the threat of fines of up to €50,000, imposed by their professional association, the Chamber of Physicians (ÄK). more

Germany OKs Killer Doctors

Yes, folks, just like WWII, Germany is allowing doctors to kill their patients. Shameful.

German doctors can assist terminally ill

An administrative court in Berlin has given German doctors the power to use their own judgment in cases involving terminally ill patients who want to die.

The court lifted a physician's association ban on assisted suicide that included fines of up to $65,722 on doctors who provided their patients with enough drugs to kill themselves, The Local reported Wednesday. more

German Doctors Oppose Assisted Suicide

German doctors, apparently, are more against assisted suicide than their counterparts in the UK, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

German docs keep ban on assisted suicide

After a heated debate German doctors have voted to maintain a ban on doctors assisting patients who wish to commit suicide. more

New Anti-Ethanasia Movie Wins Award

Hard on the heels of Code Blue (see trailer below), a Cannes award winner about a Dutch euthanasia nurse, is this movie about how the Nazis murdered their own citizens with disabilities.

‘The Doctor’ wins the script category at Life Fest Film Festival

At the inaugural Life Fest Film Festival held on April 15-16, 2011 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA, screenwriter Claire Hutchinson, M.A., took hometop honors in the script category with her Nazi period drama, “The Doctor”, about the German Euthanasia Campaign in Hitler’s Germany. more

German Medicos OK Assisted Suicide - Awful

Geez, the German doctors should know better - after all, it was they in WWII who had the handle on euthanasia. Frightening, absolutely frightening.

German Medical Association eases rules on assisted suicide

Germany's medical community has liberalized its code on helping sick patients die, giving more freedom to individual doctors. The change reflects a growing acceptance of assisted suicide among German doctors.

The German Medical Association has presented new guidelines for physician-assisted suicide, allowing greater leeway for doctors to rely on their own conscience when deciding whether to help ill patients die. more

German Doctors Tilting Towards Assisted Suicide

Oh, so priceless – now German doctors are starting to think that assisted suicide is OK. Remember, assisted suicide and euthanasia were hallmarks of their dark Nazi past, something that seems to have already been forgotten. Frightening.

German doctors set to support assisted suicide

The professional association for German doctors may soon relax its disapproval of physician assisted suicide. President of the Bundesärztekammer (BAK, or National Medical Association), Jörg-Diettrich Hoppe, says that new guidelines are being finalised and will be published in the first half of the year. more

At Last: Respect For Nazi Euthanasia Victims

It’s comforting to know that even after all these years, the Austrians are planning on paying respect to the victims of Nazi genocide - respect these victims never received in life. Would that that respect were more pervasive among the pro-deathers today.

Austria to exhume bodies in Nazi euthanasia probe

HALL, Austria (Reuters) - Hundreds of graves found at an Austrian state hospital will be exhumed once the ground thaws to see if any are victims of a Nazi-era purge of patients deemed unworthy to live, authorities said on Tuesday.

The discovery of about 220 bodies in a hospital cemetery during a construction project in Hall, near the Tyrolean capital Innsbruck, aroused suspicions that some of those buried there between 1942 and 1945 were victims of a euthanasia campaign. more

When Nazis Did It: Murder - When The Pro-Deathers Do It: "Mercy"

They’re still discovering bodies of Germans with disabilities murdered by the Nazis. I’ll not belabor the point, but in this day and age we’re doing the same thing in many places, only now we call it “mercy,” “a right,” and “compassion.” Don’t buy it, not once. 

Graveyard may contain Nazi victims

A hospital graveyard in western Austria could contain the remains of up to 220 people killed by the Nazis. . . . More than 75,000 people were killed by the Nazis for having physical or mental disabilities. more

German Push-Back To Lawsuit Seeking To OK Assisted Suicide

Good for the ADF for supporting Germany as it tries to fend off a challenge to make assisted sucide legal.

ADF supports German pro-life stance

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is being allowed to represent a German pro-life group in a court challenge to the German government over its denying an assisted suicide request.

A husband decided to sue after his wife's request to be euthanized was denied, even though she proceeded with her plans in Switzerland and is now deceased. ADF attorney Roger Kiska, who is in Croatia, tells OneNewsNow the lawsuit is now before the European Court of Human Rights. more

German Citizen Sues Germany In EU Court To Allow Assisted Suicide

Well, this will be interesting: A German citizen has sued Germany in the EU court after German authorities denied his wife meds that would have helped her commit assisted suicide. This will be especially interesting given the acceptance of assisted suicide or euthanasia in Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and so on.

German widower goes to court over assisted suicide

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg began hearing the case of Ulrich Koch vs. Germany on Tuesday. A court brief said the case concerned the German authorities' refusal to grant his late wife authorization to acquire a lethal dose of medication enabling her to commit voluntary, assisted suicide. more

Clueless German Press Thinks Assisted Suicide Is Euthanasia

OK, here’s why the press does such harm to our cause and aids and abets the pro-deathers: A story of a prominent German couple who went to Dignitas in Switzerland and were killed via assisted suicide NOT voluntary euthanasia. Voluntary euthanasia ia when someone requests euthanasia and is then killed, usually by a doctor. Assisted sucide is when someone helps another commit suicide. Assisted suicide is what this story’s about.

Report: German Flick industrialist died by voluntary euthanasia

Berlin - A former German industrialist who was at the centre of one of West Germany's biggest political scandals died alongside his wife through voluntary euthanasia in a Swiss clinic, media reports said Saturday.

The daughter of Eberhard von Brauchitsch was reported by the news magazine Focus as saying her father and mother Helga had decided to end their own lives.

"Due to the rapid deterioration of their health, my parents took this step into consideration - and then took the step at an appropriate time for them," daughter Bettina von Brauchitsch said.

The couple died on Thursday, and news of their death was first made known the following day. Eberhard von Brauchitsch was 83.

Voluntary euthanasia is a controversial practice whereby patients with terminal illnesses are aided in causing their own death. It is illegal in most European countries. more

Pro-Deather Propaganda Reaches Germany (Of All Places)

So it spreads, the pro-deather message, that is. Here’s a fight in Germany where a woman and her lawyer conspired to euthanize her mother – illegally, but, as we’ve seen elsewhere, this is increasingly irrelevant in the drumbeat for death.

German Criminal Court Considers Watershed Assisted Suicide Case

KARLSRUHE, Germany, June 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) is expected to rule this month on whether the removal of artificially administered food and water constitutes murder or is simply the cessation of “medical treatment.” 

The case surrounds an attempt to euthanise “Erika K,” who had been comatose since a cerebral hemorrhage in 2002. The woman’s daughter claimed her mother had previously expressed a desire not to have her life artificially prolonged and asked nursing home staff to discontinue her mother’s “artificial diet.” The nursing home initially agreed, but then backed down.

The daughter, known as “Elke G” in court, said that following the advice of her lawyer, Wolfgang Putz, she used scissors to cut the gastric tube from her mother’s abdominal wall. Upon discovery, nurses inserted a new feeding tube and called the police.

Although Erika K died shortly after of unrelated causes, the daughter and her lawyer were indicted for attempted manslaughter. Elke G. was acquitted, but Putz received a nine month suspended sentence. more

Germany: Euthanasia Returns - Sieg Heil!!!

Ah, the Germans step up in favor of euthanasia . . . Yes, indeedy, they have a long history of killing people they think shouldn't be alive by the criteria they set. The more things change . . .

What Is So Bad About Dying?

Michael de Ridder, the head of the emergency ward at a Berlin hospital and author of a new book on dying, discusses how modern medical advances are making death more complicated for patients with little hope of living. His book makes a plea for doctors to allow people to die with greater dignity.

SPIEGEL: Mr. de Ridder, as an emergency physician, you fight to save lives every day. Which makes it interesting that you, all people, are now calling for a new definition of death in an era of high-tech medicine. Isn't that a contradiction?

De Ridder: In my field in particular, I see how the limits of life are constantly expanding, without regard for the well-being or will of the patient. In some emergency rooms, half of all admissions now come from nursing homes. If someone who is chronically ill has a heart attack or gets pneumonia there, the most sensible thing to do is to make sure that they don't suffer, and to refrain from doing anything else. But this is all too rare. Instead, old people, who are dying, are torn out of their familiar surroundings, rushed off to hospital in an ambulance, resuscitated and given artificial respiration. If they're unlucky, they die in the elevator. These are horrible, undignified situations. more