BBC) — A Belgian man serving a life sentence for rape and murder will be allowed to have doctors end his life, after a landmark ruling.
Unable to control his violent sexual urges, Frank Van Den Bleeken, who is 50, argued he would never be freed.
The decision follows a three-year legal battle by the prisoner, who was convicted in the 1980s.
The ruling is the first involving a prisoner since the assisted dying law was introduced in Belgium 12 years ago.
Van Den Bleeken will soon be transferred to a hospital where the medical procedure will take place, his lawyers told reporters.
"But I cannot say when or where that will happen," Jos Vander Velpen added. [read more at BBC News, Reddit comments]
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Human-Stupidity Analysis
- Child rapist raped, stitched by medics, and re-raped by 20 prisoners was our most successful post ever, with half a million visitors and 50 000 likes on facebook. Certainly it is more humane to allow a sex offender to commit suicide then to suffer tacitly condoned daily anal gang rape with HIV infection.
- Stop Prison Rape! Legalize Corporal Punishment (Whipping) Of course, one might think that forcing the felon to live to his last breath is a deserved punishment.
- Dogs, horses, animals in general have a right to mercy killing. Only humans must suffer to the last breath. If an animal was left to die like terminally ill humans, the humane society would rightfully sue.
- Only killers on death row have right to quick painless death. Quadriplegics and cancer patients have no right to assisted suicide to shorten months of slow dying
Thinking of victims‘ human rights, of protection of future victims of sex offenses and rape, assisted suicide looks like a good option. Sort of like a voluntary death penalty.
Of course, there are issues of victimless crime, *consensual *rape, people left to die in prison for groping adolescents in the 1970ies, or life in prison for possession of photos. Should these be allowed to die?
- Supreme Court oks indefinite detention for possession of photos. But violent robbers get freed. Should he be allowed suicide? Or should he be freed for his victimless crime (see voodoo theory)
- Dangerous pedophile hunters threaten harmless pedophile (Jack McClellan)
- "To Catch a Predator" witch hunt by NBC Dateline & "Perverted Justice
- YouTube Spoof of "Catch a Predator": Absurdity of Underage Sex Entrapment
- "Child Porn" Witch Hunt: Insane Laws
- "The Hunt": false accusation of child sexual abuse. A movie review
- Female quotas on death row? Unsuccessful male losers overlooked by feminist zeal!
- IQ tests prohibited for job requirement, mandatory at death row
- Only killers on death row have right to quick painless death. Quadriplegics and cancer patients have no right to assisted suicide to shorten months of slow dying
- Over 40% of rape accusations are false many falsely convicted might prefer to die to regular anal rape
- Tony Nicklinson condemned to life of torture – by British High Court Law abiding citizens tend to have less rights, get less mercy, then felons
- Frances Inglis’ Painless Mercy Killing of Brain-Damaged Son: Murder Conviction Should he get the right to suicide?
- Paraplegic man wins right to die, to starve to death. Human Rights activists are more worried about painless death of felons
- Couple stoned to death by Taliban Video. 17 year old girl stoned to death, too.
- 25 hottest sex offenders any boy wishes to become a rape victim of Some of these might wish to commit suicide. Of course, one might argue that these women should not even be in prison.
- These should be in prison: How to Kill your Husband! A Tutorial. (Susan Falls’ Licence to Kill)
- Sucking infant’s penis is legal in the US! If you first cut off his foreskin without anesthesia!
- "The Central Park Five": Hoodlum robber rapists unjustly rewarded with US$ 40 million
- Killer "child" (17.99 years old) enjoys impunity and anonymity of Brazil’s child protection law (ECA)
- 14 year old murdered 8, will kill 3 more when freed in 45 days. Liberal child protection law run amok in Brazil.
- "Human Rights" protect criminals to the detriment of law abiding citizens
- Somali pirates rewarded with asylum in Europe
- British witch hunt continues: Rolf Harris chided for complimenting 13 year old bikini body in the 1970ies
- Boy so happy about sex with 8 year older women that he brags about it. Off to prison she goes
- Gorgeous 24 year old Meredith Powell rapes children, age 15-17, who begged to be raped
- British judge frees child-rapist because he “didn’t know it was wrong”
Mail Online UK Serial murderer and rapist, 50, given right to die under controversial Belgian euthanasia laws 4 hrs ago
Telegraph Belgium grants murderer’s request for mercy killing 10 hrs ago
Yahoo! News UK and Ireland Belgium agrees to sex offender’s request for mercy killing 11 hrs ago
Huffington Post Belgian Prisoner Serving Life Sentence Granted Request To Die After Years Of Mental Anguish 15 hrs ago
MSNBC Newsweek Belgian Murderer Granted Assisted Suicide Request 16 hrs ago
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Over the years society has become more tolerant, sadly ideas like euthanasia and even discrete breastfeeding in public still drive many Americans crazy. Weather you agree or disagree with the idea of euthanasia it is destined to become a major social issue in coming years.
With people living longer and technologies ability to extend a person’s life well beyond where they feel it has any “real quality” the issue of euthanasia will not go away. The article below makes the case that confronting our own mortality sooner rather than later is conducive to living a better and more balanced life, mortality influences our values and feelings about everyday life.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2017/04/euthanasia-opens-path-to-dignified-death.html