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My Death Is Not My Own | Henk Blanken | TEDxAmsterdam


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look my name I am still half the man
that I was falling without a stick I will only
to sometimes
I safely pee or listen
at the kitchen counter and sometimes I can
hardly talking
look at me or with my partners
slowly I have to disable and if I do
I really unlucky then finally lost
confused lost dementia
my father-in-law was 91 when he was
woman looked into sneaking and hair
my kitchen went to work
shortly thereafter left him behind one
nursing home never leaves that image
release that lost man behind the glasses
his door
distraught about his silent reproach
are not to suggest loneliness with
pain from my parson I learned to live
and shame wear
how is going to be
how will it go if it does not know anymore
that I live
then it would rather die
and do you know that dying must do that
to be
I live in the Netherlands and nowhere
euthanasia as well arranged as here
yet we have a neat law here
euthanasia law
nine of the ten Dutch are standing
behind that law if you are unbearable and
hopelessly suffers than allowed to take action
let die
do you have terminal lung cancer
merciful ladder doctor you then die
because you do not have to be in your own blood
choke
windith end up like a zombie in one
lazy if you do that in a declaration of will
you have been allowed and if you have one
give a syringe if you are by then
quite a bit behind your own shadow
hunt
we are like Dutch
proud of that right to self-determination
with such as being proud of ours
liberal drug policy
it is part of our folklore
with windmills and the ramparts just that
right were so proud of
it does not exist that euthanasia it is
not half as liberal as everyone thinks
and if the people go tom is the law and
dead letter
a doctor can help you but needs to
nothing
euthanasia is not a right
let the patient have the final say
this is not the family you love but the doctor
and no one else
the paradox is overwhelming
you’re terrified all your life
your underwear behind the sisters
to hunt
behind shadows
behind yourself and you never think so
but if you are so confused as you are
never wanted to be
you can no longer ask for death and
So then nothing happens because doctors
do not happen to people you kill
can not deal with that anymore
ask you no longer understand what is
happens
die every year in the Netherlands
10,000 people dementia
about half of it had been recorded
that she did not want to die like that
worthy death
and how many people succeed 100
an average of 100 people escape that
destiny but only because they are already in it
first stage of dementia
euthanasia questions imagine that
there is still nothing boring to see you do nothing
geks
and it may or will take years before you
need for nursing
and yet you decide to die already
the need for this is necessary
but what else are you, he is not a choice
who does not die later too early
dead because it is too difficult on time
I like that
something happened to the other with the
thousands of people who are not immediately on
euthanasia questions that only want to die
if they can not live at home anymore
how much actually got killed
was asking for
14 exactly 14 and not per year
but since the law came into force
2002 fourteen people got a good one
dead on time at their time
look my name half the man I am
used to be
I become past five in the past
or ten years I will be a wheelchair
but that silly lead that I want
transfer and if someone needs me later
wash or
sound can still read or can still think
start writing
I want to be unusually lazy
I do not have to die worthy
decorum does not do anything to me that already was god
when we first use it on it
balcony from the last bumblebee home
I am not afraid of death
my death is nothing
my death has meaning for my line
stragglers
my death is not only mine
I think everyone still has to
can decide on his life
end when I can no longer do it myself
say that I want death and no action yet
what are you going?
moon another to do that
how else that can do what what
that means
when she sees that I am in pain or afraid
then my love makes pilnar and buck
I now think everyone is crazy
turned him a pill and you porridge that
ask the toddler of no one
No
what can you ask of someone you can
demanding from someone
hunger it or not a doctor wants
do and my dear can not do
you have to do it together
you love that doctor and that is less
crazy of it already seems your neighbor can
with you full power a medical
stop treatment if you are confused
and lost
pneumonia gets no doctor on
we do not start with antibiotics
more than just die of
only a bit of a lame later
therefore allow you to do so on the law
same ship is entitled to delegate
so you do not lie the pill in your porridge
do not have to stir but the moment can
choose through daughter why now
the law must regulate that neighbor
your request can ask for euthanasia
as if you ask for it yourself
so they say later look at him he took
now strives for a myth too late he asked
went on time
thank you
[Applause]
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