tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post2816060691979017263..comments2024-03-28T13:26:59.030-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Is euthanasia for psychological suffering changing Belgian medicine?Alex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-77937731259941964042017-11-11T00:30:27.511-05:002017-11-11T00:30:27.511-05:00I do not know about Belgium, but I can say in Cana...I do not know about Belgium, but I can say in Canada, that some physicians offer the patient euthanasia even if the patient does not ask, only because they feel the level of psychological and existential suffering is too much of the patient to bear. The result with three of my patients when offered this option was to feel that they could not freely express their depth of suffering with their doctor! States to me, like, "You can stay with me as I express my suffering but there are many who cannot... They just want to end my suffering but offering assistance in dying." That says three things to me:<br />1) Physicians have ignored existential/psychological suffering too long and have not idea how to deal with it.<br />2) Some physicians cannot separate their own suffering from that of their patient.<br />3) Most cases wanting assisting death are not for physical reasons, but for fear of loss of control, fear of loss of enjoyable activities..... fear...that is deeper than psychological suffering, that is existential suffering. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16551752961967858503noreply@blogger.com