Dr. L?opold Vanbellingen:

Taking the example of Belgium, in 2002 when the law was adopted, the legislature guaranteed that health institutions would not be forced to apply euthanasia within their walls because the law was supposed to be a law of flexibility that offers a choice to people and does not force them to do things. Quickly, because of this individualistic approach that really focuses on the relationship between the patient and the doctor, the legislature eventually considered that as it is an individual choice, we could not, as an institution, refuse to apply what was decided by the parliament. What makes things complicated now is that in Belgium, and in the Netherlands and Canada, if I want to work as a doctor or nurse in palliative care in a hospice or a nursing home and I do not want to be asked to be involved in euthanasia, I do not have any place to work because of this law that now forces every health institution to agree to apply the euthanasia law.