But a new report from European conservatives documents that the head of a health insurance conglomerate in Belgium, Luc Van Gorp, admits it is a “money-saving solution.”
He heads a group that calls itself “Christelijke Mutualiteit”, or Christian Mutual Insurance.
He is pushing for changes in the law that would allow people to report that their lives “are over” and get state help in dying.
The prerequisite at this time is that there is evidence of “unbearable suffering”.
The report explains that the head of the “Christian in name only” company expressed his hopes during a recent interview.
“We need to remove the stigma between life and death,” he said. “I’ve never understood why we always discuss the amount of life. We want people to age as much as possible, we do everything to achieve this. But we never ask ourselves the question of how quantity is related to quality of life.”
He added: “This debate must be placed at the top of the political agenda. As a society we will have to consider how to organize this assistance [for the elderly] in the future, knowing that today we are already short of hands.”
He said that an internal study confirmed that the aging population is becoming a problem in Belgium, because by 2050, the number of people over the age of 80 will double to 1.2 million.
“How are we going to prepare for this?” he wondered. “Not building mass residential care centers if they don’t contribute to quality of life. If we are not able to support the mass of people who need treatment, how will we be able to start a dialogue with them?”
He insists that people “should have the freedom to end their lives” “even if there is no unbearable suffering…”
“What if the quality of care is perfect, but the person still doesn’t experience quality of life? What to do then, when there are still people who indicate that they are done with life?
He continued: “We need to remove the stigma between life and death. Not through harsh euthanasia, because that scares people. But allowing people to point it out [their life] It was good [and that it can end now].”
The Christian Institute explained that Van Gorp was pushing bluntly for people “tired of life” to be allowed to die to “avoid a social funding crisis.”
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