Important correction to the 17-year-old euthanasia story: It is FALSE. She asked for but did not receive that service, and later effectively ended her own life by refusing food and liquid.https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1136196382585438208 …
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It's actually dying of dehydration, not starvation, if liquids are withheld. There's a whole movement around it; entirely legal, because you can't force a patient to eat/drink. But yes, this was a 17-yr-old girl, not an adult with a terminal illness. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/health/voluntarily-stopping-eating-drinking.html …
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The State actively killing someone via lethal injection is not remotely in the same ballpark as not force-feeding (or force-hydrating) someone who won't eat or drink. It's not a minor error; it's a failure of journalism, as
@kittypurrzog discusses here: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/06/05/40398048/no-the-dutch-did-not-legally-euthanize-a-teen-victim-of-rape …
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I wasn’t referring to force feeding but to their refusal to allow her to try ECT, which is known to improve condition of certain psychiatric patients who are refusing to eat or drink. Yes this was misreported, but passive euthanasia still occurred.
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