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A article translated by former Belgian lends credibility to the contention that right-to-die laws can lead to what is euphamistically referred to as "involuntary euthanasia": "In 2001, more than one thousand Flemings died after administration of a 'euthanizing' medication. This corresponds to about 1.8 percent of all deaths. But only 175 of them (0.3 %) had requested this themselves. Only in these cases it is a matter of legal [in Belgium] euthanasia. In the remaining 840 instances a doctor terminated the lives of the patients in the absence of an explicit request by the latter." Holy cow.
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