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Would these "angels" who accommodate you in the emergency units, when you are failing after a surgery, or cheer up your close relations and dearest siblings, have a word to say? Or should they keep silent "forever" and leave the last word to doctors, undertakers or "scientists"?

They know everything, they are like ants, they work in silence, look after their patients in their deepest privacy, strictly follow medical orders for the good of the patient. They are far more around the patients than the doctor himself and hear them, their claims, their tears, their laughter, their desperate cries sometimes, and also their silence. They are the confidents of your sufferings, either if it concerns yourself or a close relation who you are accompanying...

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Since 2002, euthanasia is, under certain conditions, decriminalized in Belgium. I belong to the increasing group of doctors who believe that the law brings more problems than it solves.

There is no need to quote the Bible or any encyclical, my argument can be based entirely on scientific / empirical observation. Indeed, the only "benefit" of this law is that it has transformed our country into a laboratory where we can see beyond the philosophical considerations and the reality of daily practice the profound changes in attitude and aberrations that such law may induce a decade...

read « We aim to protect all human life, also the doctor's life! ! »

Euthanasia for people 'tired of life': Prof Raphael Cohen-Almagor, who has conducted extensive research on euthanasia in the Netherlands and in Belgium, raises concerns about further expansion of the practice in Belgium.

VIDEO...

read « VIDEO: Euthanasia slipery slope »

To you who have chosen to care for the sick, aging beings, we will all be dying sooner or later, I am sending you a call: Please, in the name of what drives your work in depth and presided over your career, in the name of your hands and your hearts daily engaged with the sick and suffering, in the name of our common humanity delicate and beautiful at the same time, enter into resistance!

Yes, resist this deadly spirit that spreads in our humanity and tries to shorten and oppress the heart of man neither seen nor known...

read « Enter creative resistance ! »