>>>I understand that Holland just enacted euthanasia laws, making it now legal for "mercy killings". What if the "killee" doesn't want the treatment?
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>>Way to go, Holland! I just hope such laws make their ways in North America! I have long objected to artificial extention of life. Yeah, I'd really like to spend 5 to 10 years in an hospital bed looking at the ceiling!
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>I mis-spoke. APparently it was the Netherlands. Here's the link I couldn't find yesterday:http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,677005,00.html
For practical purposes, Holland and The Netherlands are the same thing. In reality, I believe that "Holland" is only a province (or two?) within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but in popular speach, "Holland" is used for the entire country.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
