I stole it from the gov't pops. What could go wrong? Now open wide ....
Posted on 12/30/2012 7:25:43 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 60,000 patients put on death pathway without being told but minister still says controversial end-of-life plan is 'fantastic'
Up to 60,000 patients die on the Liverpool Care Pathway each year without giving their consent, shocking figures revealed yesterday.
A third of families are also kept in the dark when doctors withdraw lifesaving treatment from loved ones.
Despite the revelations, Jeremy Hunt last night claimed the pathway was a ‘fantastic step forward’. Outcry: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt provoked outrage by saying the death pathway was a 'fantastic step forward'
In comments that appeared to prejudge an official inquiry into the LCP, the Health Secretary said ‘one or two’ mistakes should not be allowed to discredit the entire end-of-life system.
But Elspeth Chowdharay-Best of Alert, an anti-euthanasia group, said: ‘The Pathway is designed to finish people off double quick. It is a lethal pathway.
‘Mr Hunt has made a nonsense of the claim of his ministers that there is going to be an independent inquiry.’
The review follows a public outcry over a string of disturbing cases, highlighted by this paper, in which patients or their families were ignored.
The pathway involves withdrawal of lifesaving treatment, with the sick sedated and usually denied nutrition and fluids. Death typically takes place within 29 hours.
The 60,000 figure comes from a joint study by the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute in Liverpool and the Royal College of Physicians
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Coming soon to a hospital near you.......
letting them die, saving money for the welfare of Muslim immigrants no doubt
Only the worker bees count. The old and vulnerable are a drain on the collective.
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Hey, lets all have a laugh at that stupid Sarah Palin. Death panels and all that. What an idiot! Oooh, did you see what Honey Boo Boo said?
(Do I really need a /sarc?)
Dear Lord... please bring comfort to these souls and their families and please preserve us from this kind of nightmare.
A “right” to die, soon becomes a duty to do so. Anyone who decides to fight for a few more precious months or years of life, will be immediately seen as selfish.
Systematic mass murder is justification for someone plugging the progressive pig.
And death pathways without patient consent, universal domestic surveillance, a near total gun ban, the criminalization of opposing opinions, etc.
Can anyone explain why they are any better than Nazis they once fought?
NO doubt...and NO doubt heading our way here in USA !
This is the Dems “final solution” to the otherwise unfunded multi-10-Trillion $$$ liabilities known as Soc Sec and Medicare
I think those UK doctors realize they could be next some day.
The nonchalance by which people are integrating the Nazi plan is stunning.
“Liverpool Care Pathway”
Sorry mate, but you’ve got an irregular Mersey heart beat.
...and yet, that slimy limey Piers Morgan is upset at our United States for our constitutional rights to own and carry weapons and our belief in that pesky Bible that he feels should be ‘revised’ due to its language!
I stole it from the gov't pops. What could go wrong? Now open wide ....
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