Wednesday, October 02, 2013

What a country....

Belgian euthanised due to sex change distress
A 44-year-old Belgian in distress after a failed sex change was euthanised this week after doctors agreed to the mercy-killing on psychological grounds, national media said Tuesday.

Nathan Verhelst died Monday in a Brussels hospital surrounded by friends after requesting assistance to die in a case that has been highly publicised in Belgium, which became only the second country in the world after the Netherlands to legalise in 2002.

"He died in all serenity," said doctor Wim Distlemans, who told the daily Het Laatste Nieuws that he won permission to be euthanised because "we could clearly say he was in unbearable psychological distress."
What is even more surprising is the number of "psychological grounds" cases, and how they have been increasing:
While there were only six cases of euthanasia recorded on psychological grounds in 2004, there were 33 in 2011 and 52 last year.
I'm not sure why they don't go full on Futurama suicide booth and be done with:


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

To whom it may concern: in case you didn’t know, the registered owner of this site is most disappointed that it doesn’t have an audience – which is not surprising since, a): he is a political activist (in his own mind) with no understanding of or training in what people in the wide world are interested in, and b): for some unfathomable hairbrained reason he decided to pitch this blog at the “conservative-leaning”, when he holds the doctrinaire positions of the loony left.
So, having realised his blog has no audience and, like most of the loony left, since he considers himself morally superior to the people who are financing his lifestyle through their taxes, has dedicated himself to becoming a full-time troll of those sites that were set up without taxpayer subsidy so he can represent the thieves of the mooching class.
As a result, more often than not he is banned at sites such as Catallaxyfiles.com, which tolerates trolls until they start to alienate readers, such is the sewer he turns them into.
If you have found this site and you’re wondering not only why it has no content of interest, but why it has so little content at all (whereas in recent months there were up to six posts a day, mostly defending the incompetent and unpopular leftwing government that has just been thrown out of office), it is because the troll who owns it (who won’t even tell you who he is) has decided to go trolling again to take advantage of the periodic revocation of his banning.
You won’t have long to wait before he’s back here again, whingeing and wailing about the fact that he’s again banned from the site that actually has a mass audience and he’s forced to use his own site to spread the moocher message.

Thank you.

SteveC said...

You're a sad case anonymous (Tom?)

John said...

As a result, more often than not he is banned at sites such as Catallaxyfiles.com, which tolerates trolls until they start to alienate readers, such is the sewer he turns them into.

Rubbish. I was banned months ago and that still holds. And no I was never labelled as a troll, and I was banned on some stupid trumped up allegation. The real reason I was banned is because catallaxyfiles has become a closed shop. The moderators labels as trolls or nuisances anyone who doesn't hold his nutty economic ideology. If you are in the in crowd there you can slander and defame people all day long, if not the slightest provocation will see you banned. In fact when I was banned people there refused to believe it. Now they know, the moderator is a fascist bully boy, like so many claiming a higher moral authority he is just another hypocrite.