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May 02, 1934 Sint Michiels, Flemish Region, Belgium Died on 18 Jan 2019 (aged 84)
Belgian debater, philosopher and skeptic
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About 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 and euthanasia law in Belgium.
- He is also former Vice-Rector of Ghent University. Vermeersch became an atheist after five years with the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
- Later he became a philosophical materialist.
- In the 1990s there was some commotion in the Belgian media when Vermeersch wrote a rational-scientific article entitled "Why the Christian God cannot exist". 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.
