Wesley J. Smith: Belgian Doctor Euthanizes Patient with a Pillow


(NRO) – Euthanasia is not the practice of medicine. It just puts a “medical” patina on homicide.

Proof of point: When a doctor tried to lethally inject a patient at her request and she didn’t die, he smothered her with a pillow. From the Daily Telegraph New Zealand story:

A terminally ill Belgian woman was ‘euthanized’ by suffocation with a pillow by a doctor after lethal drugs she requested to be administered to her to voluntarily end her life proved to be insufficient, according to reports by Belgian media … CONTINUE