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Jutte van den Werff Ten Bosch has already had the talk with her 10-year-old son. Several times, in fact. No, not the sex talk. The euthanasia talk.
“Even if he said, ‘I want to die’, I’d support him,” she explained. “I didn’t put my children in the world for me. It’s their life and their death. The best parents are the ones who let their children go.”
Professor van den Werff Ten Bosch’s dinner-table conversations with her son and her three other children are far from hypothetical: They live in Belgium, where a law allowing child euthanasia is on track to be passed early next year.
The law, which follows a 2002 law making euthanasia legal for consenting adults, will allow terminally children of any age to request that their lives be terminated.
“Children are not tiny humans that we can boss around,” said van den Werff Ten Bosch, a pediatric oncologist who works at Brussels University Hospital and has spoken out in favor of the proposed law.
“Children with terminal diseases like cancer mature much faster than other children. They think a lot about their life and death and how they’d like their death to be. And sometimes they’re more courageous than their parents,” she said.
that is too heavy for me at the moment, i think age and maturity should be one factor whether the child has the capacity to make such a definitive decision, that must be assessed by the parent with a open mind and not considered because of what they want or think is best. than the child should be able to appreciate the ramifications pro and con and not do it from an emotional place.
i know that's ask a bit more than would could wish to be the parameters but only way i see that the child could and if asked should make that kind of permanent out come.
