{"id":59553,"date":"2017-05-04T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T11:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59553"},"modified":"2017-05-04T07:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T11:16:06","slug":"cns-belgian-brothers-to-allow-euthanasia-for-nonterminal-psych-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59553","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Belgian brothers to allow euthanasia for nonterminal psych patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of psychiatric care centers run by a Catholic religious order in Belgium has announced it will permit doctors to undertake the euthanasia of &#8220;nonterminal&#8221; mentally ill patients on its premises.<\/p>\n<p>In a nine-page document, the Brothers of Charity Group stated that it would allow doctors to perform euthanasia in any of its 15 centers, which provide care to more than 5,000 patients a year, subject to carefully stipulated criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Br. Rene Stockman, the superior general, has distanced himself from the decision of the group&#8217;s largely lay board of directors, however, and has told Belgian media that the policy was a tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot accept that euthanasia is carried out within the walls of our institutions,&#8221; said Stockman, a specialist in psychiatric care, in an April 27 interview with De Morgen newspaper in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/world\/belgian-brothers-allow-euthanasia-nonterminal-psych-patients\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of psychiatric care centers run by a Catholic religious order in Belgium has announced it will permit doctors to undertake the euthanasia of &#8220;nonterminal&#8221; mentally ill patients on its premises. In a nine-page document, the Brothers of Charity<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59553\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,463,101,438,168,114,96,98,414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-the-elderly","category-belgium","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-roman-catholic-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59554,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59553\/revisions\/59554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}