Belgian patients are being killed without their consent
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The findings are likely to inflame concern that any move to legalise assisted suicide or euthanasia in the UK would leave vulnerable people dangerously exposed.
The study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), suggests that almost half of Belgium’s euthanasia deaths may be carried out on patients who have not asked for their lives to be ended.
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It revealed that 248 nurses, representing almost a fifth of the nurses interviewed, had cared for euthanasia pati...
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