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Dr A.O.A. Smook wrote from the Netherlands:
I just attended the cremation of Adelbert Josephus Jitta, (24-09-1938
30-06-2008) well known by many of you.
He was one of the most important protagonists of the Dutch law on
euthanasia as a member of D66, a liberal/democratic party.
When he was a prosecutor in Alkmaar, we met each other during a meeting
about reporting euthanasia cases in our hospital. Fortunately the board
of the hospital was not against euthanasia, because they said that it
was a medical decision with legal aspects. This was in the early eighties.
It took us some time and sometimes a keen struggle to get a standard
formal procedure, after some prosecutions in one of which he had to
prosecute me!
When he informed about that, he said that he had asked one of his
colleagues to handle the case and that he already had asked Eugene
Sutorius to defend me. After two years of uncertainty and the expense
of 40.000 guilders, first paid by the NVVE, later by my insurance
company, I was cleared.
And so by trial and error, we succeeded in the end to lay the foundation
for our law in the Netherlands in 2002.
Dr. Smook continues with the story of a police
raid on his hospital, and the difficulties of
implementing a new euthanasia protocol.
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Smook, A.O.A.. "Prosecutor who behind the scenes enabled euthanasia laws is dead". World right-to-die news list. Tue Jul 6 15:13:32 PDT 2010. <lists.opn.org/pipermail/right-to-die_lists.opn.org/2010-July/003958.html>. Information: http://lists.opn.org/mailman/listinfo/right-to-die_lists.opn.org
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Mailed: Wednesday, July 7, 2010 14:29:42 -0600
at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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