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Imagine if you were sick and helpless and this nurse was 'working on you'.

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From:  The Pro-Life Infonet
Reply-To:  Steven Ertelt
Subject:   Dutch Nurse Gets Life in Prison for Euthanasia Deaths
Source:   New York Times, Reuters; March 25, 2003

Dutch Nurse Gets Life in Prison for Euthanasia Deaths

The Hague, Netheralnds -- A Dutch nurse was sentenced to life in prison
today for murdering four of her patients and trying to kill three others
with high doses of drugs.

The nurse, Lucy de Berk, 41, was pale and still as she heard the verdict
and the sentence that ended one of most unusual murder trials in the
Netherlands' recent history.

"The victims were sick and defenseless babies, children and elderly people
who were entrusted to the accused's nursing care and who depended on her
entirely for their life and welfare," presiding judge Jeanne Kalk told a
packed Hague courtroom. "The accused went about her work methodically and
cunningly so that the chance of her crimes being detected was slim."

De Berk's victims, the court said, were three children and an elderly
woman in her care at different hospitals in The Hague. She "administered
substances and or conducted treatments that caused the victim to stop
breathing suddenly and die," the verdict said.

The nurse, who had insisted she was innocent and wanted only to do good,
had been charged with killing 13 patients altogether. But the judges ruled
that nine cases had not been proved beyond reasonable doubt.

The children de Berk was accused of killing had serious physical
abnormalities and the elderly woman was gravely ill. However, one baby
girl died aged just five months. Though born with a heart defect, she was
not seriously ill when she came into De Berk's care and had been expected
to go home from hospital soon.

The case had drawn much attention in the Netherlands, the first country
where assisted suicide has been legalized under certain conditions.

de Berk's victims all died sudden and inexplicable deaths while she was
responsible for their medication, the court found. Statisticians told the
trial the chance of a nurse being present coincidentally at so many such
deaths was one in 342 million.

One of the more unusual pieces of evidence presented was a diary with
mysterious entries about her one great secret. One entry said: "Today I
gave in to my compulsion. Still, I'm making many people happy. Very
strange!"

Prosecutors said the entries coincided with the death of a victim. de Berk
claims her "compulsion" referred to her love for laying out Tarot cards, a
form of fortune telling, for her patients. It was secret she said because
it was not allowed in a hospital.

de Berk intends to appeal the verdict, her lawyer said.

Death Nurse

I cannot understand why groups (who are living) insist on carrying out formal times and places for people to kill themselves. What pleasure do they get from that?

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From:  The Pro-Life Infonet
Reply-To:  Steven Ertelt
Subject:   British Couple Die at Swiss Assisted Suicide Facility
Source:   Reuters; April 15, 2003

British Couple Die at Swiss Assisted Suicide Facility

London, England -- A middle-aged British couple have been helped
to commit suicide by a Swiss charity even thought they did not
suffer from any terminal illness.

Authorities said on Tuesday that Robert and Jennifer Stokes died
on April 1 by swallowing a lethal dose of barbiturates in a
Zurich flat hired by the Swiss pro-assisted suicide group
Dignitas. The group has killed more than 100 people from around
the world.

Zurich District Attorney Edwin Luscher said more and more
foreigners were using the assisted suicide organization to kill
themselves.

"Switzerland apparently has the most liberal regulation on this
issue so people from all over Europe come here to die," he told
Reuters. "It is not good for Zurich's reputation that it provides
suicide tourism. We would rather have tourism for the living, but
apparently there is indeed a need (for this)."

Stokes, 59, who had epilepsy and his 53-year-old wife had
diabetes and back problems, care providers said.

In January, a terminally ill British man, 74-year-old Reginald
Crew, who suffered from motor neurone disease, became the first
Briton publicly to end his own life in Switzerland, where killing
a terminally ill via assisted suicide is not illegal and widely
considered to be a humane act.

Last May, Belgium joined the Netherlands as one of two European
countries to actively decriminalize euthanasia. Most other
European countries oppose the grisly practice.

A spokeswoman said on Tuesday a lack of government policy on
assisted suicide gave Britons a green light to use the Swiss
facility.

"Today's case is a very sad one," she said. "It shows how the law
in this country isn't working. Because there is no government
policy on assisted suicide it effectively gives a green light to
use the clinic and many of those may be vulnerable."

Nurse of Death History & Civil Business Politics

KILLER NURSE GETS 11 LIFE SENTENCES

On the day New Jersey's most prolific serial killer received 11 consecutive life sentences, family members of his victims gave the former nurse a verbal lashing in court.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/02/killer.nurse/index.html

Death Nurse

It seems like it was a very emotional day when the family of the victims had the opportunity to talk and express their feelings, some of them directly told him that "there are no open doors in hell, babe", another family member of one of the victims demanded that the guy look at her on her eyes while she was speaking. He wanted to donate a kidney to a friend prior to his sentence but he wasn't allowed to, now he can do it if he wishes to.