Lebensunwertes Leben, I guess

Apparently, in Belgium, they're harvesting organs from the "euthanized," of which half are not voluntarily killed (in direct violation of the law, apparently).  Now the Belgians are defending the program by noting that the quality of organs is much better than those from accident victims, and they're claiming that the organ donors are in fact voluntary, but the fact of the matter here is that.....ahem....

....the quality of the organs is much better than that of young, healthy accident victims.  In other words, what's going on here is not an extraordinary end of life measure whereby the suffering of a cancer victim is reduced by a few days by tripling the dose of morphine.  Rather, people who are relatively healthy are having their lives ended, and half the time not at their own request.

In the same way that the late Jack Kervorkian's victims were often found not to have the maladies he claimed they had, the Belgian (and Dutch) experience is that euthanasia is not used as much to alleviate suffering as it may be being used to hasten inheritances.

And, perhaps, organ donations.  A question every euthanasia enthusiast ought to be asked is the classic "Cui Bono?", and any euthanasia law needs to have strict, and strictly enforced, provisions to make sure that those who benefit from a person's death aren't the ones pulling the plug or speeding up the morphine drip.