Let’s face it, says the ghoulish Dr. Jean-Marie Vincent, a prominent Belgian professor of medicine, the number of doctor-facilitated euthanasias in Belgium each year is far above the official number, because doctors are deciding themselves that even though the patient is not suffering uncontrollable pain, it’s time for them to die. But the Belgian law must go further, says Dr. Vincent, speaking for his country’s professional society of intensive care doctors;

Doctors need the right to administer drugs to euthanize a patient whose “life quality has become too poor” — even if the patient has not consented. The statement signed by Dr. Vincent and the medical society says that doctors must have authorization in law to put patients to death who have not asked for euthanasia, and whose families may be opposed to it; though “full consideration of the wishes of the family” must be taken, the final decision must rest with the physician.

“The first purpose of medicine is to restore or maintain health, that is to say, the well-being of the individual, not life at all costs,” writes Dr. Vincent, in one of the country’s leading newspapers.

Ah yes; “life unworthy of life.” Do not go to the intensive care unit of a Belgian hospital; you may not come out, and your family may not be able to save you from these Nazified Belgian doctors.