Patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 can die by euthanasia if doctors decide they might not survive, the New Zealand government has declared.
新西蘭政府宣布，如果醫生認為他們可能無法生存，因 COVID-19 入院的患者可能會死於安樂死。
衛生部證實，根據新的安樂死法，注射死刑的權利可以擴展到死於 冠狀病毒或因冠狀病毒的後果而無法忍受的患者。
為了回應對上個月生效的安樂死法的澄清要求，政府宣布“在某些 情況下，患有 COVID-19 的人可能有資格獲得協助死亡”。
在反安樂死捍衛者網站的編輯 Henoch Kloosterboer 根據《官方信息 法》（新西蘭相當於 2000 年《信息自由法》）提出要求之後，承 認 COVID 患者有資格接受致命刺戳。
他說，該政策為老年人和弱勢患者的“虐待敞開大門”——特別是如果 該國的衛生服務受到 COVID 激增的壓力。
他說：“不難想象，在這種情況下，COVID-19 住院人數迅速而可觀 地增加可能會導致利用安樂死和協助自殺作為解決如此嚴重危機的 工具的壓力。”
他補充說，安樂死法“現在使 COVID-19 大流行對新西蘭 Aotearoa 的人民更加危險”。
2019 年《生命終結選擇法》被認為是世界上最極端的安樂死法律 之一，批評人士稱這些保障措施非常脆弱，很容易被規避。
它允許對患有將在六個月內痊癒的疾病，或處於不可逆轉的身體 衰退的晚期狀態或遭受無法忍受的痛苦的成年人實施安樂死和輔助 自殺。
該法律在 2020 年全民公投後獲得批准，保證所有居民都有權獲得 醫生的幫助，醫生會在收到請求後短短四天內殺死他們。
醫生每執行一次安樂死死亡，都會收到 1,000 新元的政府費用以及 費用。
然而，該國 16,000 名醫生中只有 96 人表示願意參與，而全國 32 家臨終關懷醫院中只有一家表示他們不會允許安樂死。
一個例外——奧克蘭南部的托塔拉臨終關懷中心——已同意在其場所 分配空間用於實踐，而其工作人員將認真反對任何參與。
在英國，姑息醫學教授蘭達夫的芬萊男爵夫人說，新西蘭的安樂死 法違背了醫學和衛生服務治癒病人的基本目的。
她說：“奇怪的是，一個國家一直試圖通過完全關閉人們可以完全 康復的病毒來保護其公民……現在卻建議這些患者應該被他們的 醫生殺死。
“它顛覆了醫學的精神，”她說。
“你真的無法 100% 預測死亡，”她補充道。“那麼為什麼不在他們 垂死的時候支持他們，並讓門敞開着，以防他們在克服一切困難 並完全康復的群體中呢？”
目前，Meacher 男爵夫人正在尋求通過她的《協助死亡法案》將 英格蘭和威爾士的協助自殺合法化，該法案於 10 月在上議院獲得 二讀。
擔任競選小組 Dignity in Dying 的跨台同行也提出了一項對《健康 和社會護理法案》的修正案，試圖將協助自殺作為姑息治療的 一部分。
在蘇格蘭，自由民主黨議員利亞姆·麥克阿瑟 (Liam MacArthur) 打算 提出一項協助自殺法案，澤西島的政界人士上個月原則上同意將 協助自殺和安樂死合法化。
然而，英國絕大多數姑息治療從業者和所有 12 個殘疾人權利組織 都強烈反對修改法律。
他們認為，無論採取何種保護措施，協助自殺和安樂死都具有歧 視性和危險性，並且容易被濫用，對患者和其他弱勢群體的安全 構成嚴重威脅。
他們還表示，其他國家的經驗表明，即使是適度的協助自殺法也 將作為更廣泛、自由化的修正案的灘頭陣地，這些修正案將消除 最初作為“獲取障礙”的保障措施。
上個月，據透露，90 歲的加拿大婦女南希·拉塞爾（Nancy Russell） 選擇通過協助自殺而死，而不是在她的療養院忍受另一次 COVID 封鎖，這將使她與朋友和家人隔離。
The Ministry of Health confirmed that a right to a lethal injection under a new euthanasia law could extend to patients who were either dying from the coronavirus or suffering unbearably from its consequences. In response to a request for clarity on a euthanasia law which came into force last month, the government declared that “in some circumstances a person with COVID-19 may be eligible for assisted dying”. The admission that COVID patients were eligible for a lethal jab came after Henoch Kloosterboer, editor of the anti-euthanasia The Defender website, made a request under the Official Information Act – the New Zealand equivalent to the 2000 Freedom of Information Act. He said the policy left “the door wide open for abuse” of elderly and vulnerable patients – especially if the country’s health service came under pressure from a COVID surge. He said: “It would not be hard to envisage a situation in which a speedy and sizeable rise in COVID-19 hospitalisations could result in pressure to utilise euthanasia and assisted suicide as tools to resolve such a serious crisis.” The euthanasia law, he added, “has now made the COVID-19 pandemic potentially even more dangerous for the people of Aotearoa New Zealand”. The 2019 End of Life Choice Act is considered to be one of the most extreme euthanasia laws anywhere in the world, and critics say the safeguards are so flimsy that they are easily circumvented. It permits both euthanasia and assisted suicide for adults suffering from an illness which would be terminal within six months, or who were in an advanced state of irreversible physical decline or who were suffering unbearably. The law, ratified following a referendum in 2020, guarantees all residents the right of access to a doctor who will kill them within a period as short as four days from receiving a request. Doctors receive a government fee of $1,000 plus expenses for every euthanasia death they perform. Just 96 of the country’s 16,000 doctors have offered to participate, however, and all but one of the nation’s 32 hospices have indicated that they will not permit euthanasia. The one exception – Totara Hospice in South Auckland – has agreed to allocate space on its premises for the practice while its staff will conscientiously object to any participation. In the UK, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, a professor of palliative medicine, said the New Zealand euthanasia law contradicted the fundamental purpose of medicine and health services to heal the sick. She said: “It is bizarre that a country which has been trying to protect it citizens by closing down completely from a virus from which people can fully recover … is now suggesting that these patients should be killed by their doctors. “It turns the ethos of medicine on its head,” she said. “You really cannot predict death 100 per cent,” she added. “So why not support them while they are dying and leave the door open in case they are in the group that defies all odds and recovers completely?” At present, Baroness Meacher is seeking to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales through her Assisted Dying Bill, which in October received its Second Reading in the House of Lords. The crossbench peer, who chairs the campaign group Dignity in Dying, has also tabled an amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill in an attempt to make assisted suicide a part of palliative care. In Scotland, Liam MacArthur, the Liberal Democrat MP is intending to introduce an assisted suicide Bill and in politicians in Jersey last month agreed in principle to legalised both assisted suicide and euthanasia. The overwhelming majority of palliative care practitioners and all 12 disability rights organisations in the UK fiercely oppose a change in the law, however. They argue that assisted suicide and euthanasia would be discriminatory and dangerous and open to abuse irrespective of any safeguard, posing a grave threat to the safety of patients and other vulnerable people. They also say that the experience of other countries suggests that even a modest assisted suicide law would serve as a beachhead for broader, liberalising amendments which will remove initial safeguards as ‘barriers to access’. Last month, it was revealed that Nancy Russell, a 90-year-old Canadian woman, chose to die by assisted suicide rather than endure another COVID lockdown in her care home that would isolate her from her friends and family.
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