{"id":282287,"date":"2022-12-28T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=282287"},"modified":"2023-03-01T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:39:59","slug":"belgium-died-euthanasia-27000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/belgium-died-euthanasia-27000\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 27,000 people have died by euthanasia in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recent report<\/a> reveals that the number of people killed by euthanasia has dramatically increased since it was legalized in Belgium in 2002. Since then, euthanasia has killed more than 27,000 people in the nation.<\/p>\n

Euthanasia became legal in 2002 due to the introduction of <\/span>an exception<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to the law prohibiting the killing of others. The exception offered<\/span>\u00a0a \u201csolution\u201d to adult patients who had a \u201cserious and incurable” disease that was causing them great suffering. It was hoped that this exception would put an end to the covert euthanasia that was being practiced.<\/p>\n

Since its legalization, euthanasia has killed over 27,000 Belgian people — but that is only the number of deaths being recorded<\/em>. The actual number of euthanized deaths is assumed to be much higher. According to the report:<\/p>\n

[T]he Commission does not have the possibility of evaluating the proportion of the number of euthanasia’s declared in relation to the number of euthanasia’s actually performed. In other words, these figures only reflect part of the reality of euthanasia in Belgium.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It has come as no surprise that euthanasia is rapidly increasing. According to a 2021 article in\u00a0The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy<\/a>, safeguards were put in place regarding the legality of euthanasia, but it appears no monitoring is being done to make sure the safeguards are actually being followed. From 2021 to 2022, the number of cases<\/a> of euthanasia in Belgium rose by 9.85%<\/a>, according to the Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia. In 2022, 2,966 people died by euthanasia in the nation, accounting for 2.5% of all deaths.<\/p>\n

Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, summarizes three main glaring issues<\/a> with Belgium\u2019s euthanasia acceptance:<\/p>\n