Etienne Vermeersch
Etienne Vermeersch (2 May 1934,
Sint-Michiels,
Bruges – 18 January 2019,
Ghent) was a
Belgian moral philosopher, skeptic, opinion maker and debater. He is one of the founding fathers of the abortion,
euthanasia law, and the Law on Patients' Rights in Belgium. Vermeersch became an
atheist after five years with the
Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Later he became a philosophical
materialist. In January 2008, Vermeersch was chosen by hundred prominent
Flemings as the most influential intellectual of
Flanders. He died in a hospital in Ghent on 18 January 2019 by euthanasia after a long illness.
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