The three “Low Countries,” Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, are sometimes remembered as the first targets of the Nazi push West in 1940. But today a new low was reached. March 17, 2009 marks the legalization of euthanasia in Luxembourg, and with that these become the only three European countries to “officially” adopt an essential tenet of utilitarian and Nazi thinking: “There are certain human lives that are not worthy of being lived.” See more here
LUXEMBOURG (AFP) — March 17, 2009
Luxembourg became on Tuesday the third European country to legalise euthanasia after the Netherlands and Belgium, as a new law went into force.
A law published in the official register said that doctors who carry out euthanasia and assisted suicides would not face “penal sanctions” or civil suits for damages and interest.
The law was the source of great controversy in the tiny country where the head of state, deeply catholic Grand Duke Henri, refused to sign off on the bill, triggering a constitutional crisis.
To get around his refusal and avoid such problems in the future, Luxembourg’s parliament voted for legislation to give the monarch a purely ceremonial role.
Apart from Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium have been the only EU countries to allow euthanasia since legalising it in 2002 under strict conditions.
