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The Sadistic Brutality of England’s Government-Run Healthcare

uvuvuv Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 11:35 AM
but to watch babies or anyone die is passive, the doctor is not doing. this is their dodge. a quietly administered fatal injection is not only actively doing harm, but even in england this might be construed as murder. but to close the door and walk away, is it the doctor's fault if the patient has the nerve to die?
Recovered Lib Wrote: Dec 04, 2012 6:38 PM
Sad but true. We humans like to imagine ourselves "evolved" from such barbaric practices. Human nature never changes. sigh...
Curtis108 Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 9:08 PM
But what is "terminal" seems to have changed
rwright Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 2:26 PM
Terminally ill babies were left to die of starvation 60 years ago, and not just in England. This is not a new practice.
dan17 Wrote: Dec 02, 2012 11:42 AM
Withholding sustenance is an act of "doing".

I’m not easily grossed out or nauseated. Heck, I’m on email lists for a half-dozen softball teams and you can only imagine the strange/filthy/nasty things that guys send to each other.

But I read a story about the death panels in the United Kingdom that left me discombobulated. I can’t even begin to describe how I feel.

Here’s the intro of a disturbing report in the Daily Mail.

Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’. Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to...

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