2023-09-08 17:06:17
The euthanasia of a young woman went wrong in Oupeye and ended in a barbaric manner. Alexina’s husband and family became civil parties. They think she was suffocated with a pillow because the sedatives didn’t work.
How to explain this tragedy? Jacques Brotchi, member of the control and evaluation commission on euthanasia, spoke in RTL INFO 13H.
How can we get to this point in a euthanasia procedure?
“What happened is not euthanasia. The fact of describing this horrible situation as that devalues the act of euthanasia, which is the accompaniment of a person until the end without pain. way to leave in a calm manner. (…) The law is very precise on this subject and everything is going well. What I have just discovered today is something that I have never heard. It is difficult for me to make comments without knowing the file. But for me this is not euthanasia.”
Who can perform these interventions to end a patient’s suffering?
“Euthanasia can be carried out at home, in a nursing home or in a hospital environment. Only a doctor is authorized to perform this procedure. He can of course be helped by the nursing staff. But the procedure is a medical procedure and only a medical one. In addition, the doctor who will perform this important procedure must be trained and must know which product to administer. On a practical level, we give a product, a first medication that relaxes and soothes, followed by a medication that puts you to sleep as for anesthesia. general. That is enough. And if that is not enough, following a few minutes, the competent doctor will inject curare. The person will not wake up and will fall asleep peacefully. Euthanasia is not a situation with a horrible experience, but it must be done under the conditions of the law and of course with competence.”
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