Posted on 06/30/2012 6:05:48 AM PDT by IbJensen
The death panel wants to talk to me about death once a year? I don't want to talk about death, who does? I don't even know them, how stressful, I guess thats the idea, stress kills. Listen to the TV and the radio, where are the real commercials about soap poweder and deodorant, all you hear about is sickness and disease, and how to cure it, if you manage to get past the horrible side effects which go by so fast you can only catch a few words, like "swollen tongue" and "bloody stools", the best is "call your Doctor if you lose conciensousness". how does an unconcscious person do that and if they could manage to make the call what about the swollen tongue? the whole thing is ridiculous. I've never been sick a day in my life and they are not putting the horns on me now.
many of us should remember when Britain socialized their healthcare..cost went sky high and no one could get care except for the very rich=politicians and their friends. why not require politicians and their famileis to be on public health as part of their job.
ping...they rather kill us than stop spending..
The savings need to come from somewhere.
It can include withdrawal of treatment — including the provision of water and nourishment by tube — and on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours.
NHS officials, naturally, deny that the LCP is a euthanasia protocol and claim patients are removed from the “pathway” if they improve.
How could a patient possibly improve if they are not given food or water?
Better to die at home in a clean bed, hydrated, fed, and surrounded by caring family.
Would you come to hospital, find your mother or father laying in filth, suffering from hunger and thirst, and then walk out of the place hoping the “staff” would do something?
I mean “you” as any of us...
I’m so glad my mom is 87 and has some money. She will probably go before any of these kind of atrocities hit OUR society.
Bella Pelosi - that’s absolutely brilliant. Can I steal it??
Don’t expect any sympathy for the elderly from the generation that survived the abortion holocaust. Life is cheap, and at 70, your worth to the state is decreasing, so you’ve had enough. We hear frequently now that the most expensive medical care is in the last months of life. ObamaCare will fix that problem, just as Britain and Sweden do now.
Death Panel BUMP
There was probably some unspoken truth behind those Benny Hill sketches of old folks being ignored in the hospitals.
Well,given that most of my most brilliant thoughts (including this one) are stolen from others it would be wrong for me to deny your request. ;-)
Remember Karen Ann Quinlan and Terri Schiavo?
Yes!
Better to die at home in a clean bed, hydrated,fed, and surrounded by caring family.
I heartily agree. I hope I am not remiss in posing a few thoughts on the UK elderly.
As a child goggle eyed being taking through a busy London Street in the late 1930s, I saw a poor aged woman begging and she was so deteriorated, I must have made a childish remark. My mother said to me, " you should remember, that lady was once a young girl and happy". I have always remembered about persons like that- what was their very best day? What did they look like then?
At the risk of a ramble, I would like to narrate the example in old Victorian England, hopefully drawn from life. Thomas Hardy, the great novelist wrote about the County of Dorset. A character was old "Grandfer Cantle". He would be humoured by tavern patrons and would sing " a stave or two". Realizing he was being humoured, he remembered when he was 21 years old and in uniform in the "Bang up locals" (militia). He said " you should have seen me rushing down to Boney's point." In 1805 it was rumoured Napoleon had invaded. "You should have seen me" he said, "sword at my side". He got free beer.
Excuse the ramble, glad I am in small city Canada.
Oh please! Watch this old movie sent to me by another Freeper! I’m sure it will delight you!
This is a must see movie of a sharecropping family of the era.
The three Oscars nominated movie was made in 1945.
It is on youtube for Free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEpfj2d-zg&feature=mv_sr
Jean Renoir’s, The Southerner
Just remember: steal only from the best!
I remember the Hardy book to which you refer, but have forgotten the title. I recall it was about the folk who lived in the moors and the title character had just returned from France.
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