2,000 French Doctors and Nurses Petition for Legalized Euthanasia
Medical professionals admit they have “helped patients die” illegally
By Gudrun Schultz
PARIS, France, March 9, 2007

(LifeSiteNews.com) – More than 2000 French medical professionals have issued a petition calling for laws to permit active euthanasia, saying they already engage in the practice when a patient’s life becomes “intolerable” due to “physical and psychological suffering.”

"Because disease was certain to defeat medical procedures, because in spite of treatment, physical and psychological suffering had rendered the life of a patient intolerable, we medical staff, have consciously helped patients to die with decency," the petition reads.

The declaration was signed by 2,134 medical professionals and published Thursday in the weekly Nouvel Observateur, Reuters reported yesterday. the rest