{"id":20415,"date":"2014-02-21T14:14:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T21:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=20415"},"modified":"2014-02-21T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T23:17:10","slug":"swiss-study-indicates-that-lonely-unbelieving-women-are-most-likely-euthanasia-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2014\/02\/swiss-study-indicates-that-lonely-unbelieving-women-are-most-likely-euthanasia-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Study Indicates Lonely, Unbelieving Women are Most Likely Euthanasia Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Grim_Reaper.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2014\/02\/Grim_Reaper.jpg\" alt=\"Grim Reaper\" width=\"450\" height=\"304\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>So who pays other people to murder them?<\/p>\n<p>A new study gives us a profile of the typical victim of euthanasia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Swiss study, 16% of the people euthanized did not have an underlying medical problem, or at least not one that was recorded on the death certificate. In 84% of the cases, the death certificate did list at least one underlying cause for euthanizing the victim.<\/p>\n<p>A previous study showed that 25% of those who were euthanized did not have a fatal illness. In a number of cases, mood disorders and mental or behavioral disorders were given as the primary underlying reason the people were euthanized.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, those most likely to request assisted suicide were well-educated women from areas of a higher socio-economic standing. Those who live alone or were divorced were 50% more likely to be euthanized. Nonbelievers were 6 times more likely to seek death than Catholics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we should issue travel advisories warning well-to-do, unhappy atheist women who live alone to stay away from Switzerland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the MailOnline:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Women, highly educated, divorced and rich people are more likely to die from assisted suicide, new research has revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><br><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">Researchers in Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal, found that of people helped by right-to-die organisations such as Dignitas, around 16 per cent of death certificates did not register an underlying cause.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">They say this indicates that an increasing number of people may simply becoming \u2018weary of life\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><br><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\" style=\"margin: 0px; clear: both; width: auto; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; height: 0px !important; line-height: 0 !important; font-size: 0px !important; float: none !important; border: 0px !important;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; position: relative; cursor: pointer;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-aa1f0e6c\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2014\/02\/19\/article-2562850-1BA2D45300000578-901_634x382.jpg\" alt=\"Of people helped by right-to-die organisations in Switzerland, such as Dignitas (pictured), around 16 per cent of death certificates did not register an underlying cause. - suggesting they were 'weary of life'\" width=\"634\" height=\"382\">\n<div class=\"overlay-icon mobile-gallery\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; height: 36px; width: 100px; line-height: 34px; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial; color: #ffffff; position: absolute; right: 10px; bottom: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">\n<div class=\"mobile-gallery-icon\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; min-height: 1px; background-image: url('http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/furniture\/mobile\/icon_camera_90x68.png'); height: 20px; width: 27px; float: none; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; background-size: 27px; background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;\">+3<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;\">Of people helped by right-to-die organisations in Switzerland, such as Dignitas (pictured), around 16 per cent of death certificates did not register an underlying cause. \u2013 suggesting they were \u2018weary of life\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">The research,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\">published online in the International Journal of Epidemiology \u2013 that shows assisted suicide is more common in women, the divorced, those living alone, the more educated, those with no religious affiliation, and those from wealthier areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; 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A new study gives us a profile of the typical victim of euthanasia.\u00a0 According to the Swiss study, 16% of the people euthanized did not have an underlying medical problem, or at least not one that was recorded on the death certificate. 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