Posted on 11/08/2013 4:08:43 AM PST by markomalley
The family of a pensioner who spent four days begging for food and water after he was placed on a controversial end-of-life programme have accused a hospital of treating him "like a dog".
The family of Ron Jee claim the 80-year-old was put on a programme similar to the Liverpool Care Pathway. This involves the withdrawal of food, fluids and medication for terminally ill patients who often die within hours of being put on it.
But they say he was treated like a dog after he spent four days on the end of life pathway when doctors said his condition was deteriorating after he was admitted to hospital with a stroke and then developing pneumonia.
Mr Jee's daughter, Christine Coleman, 52, said: “He was spending his days crying. No one should have to spend their final days like that.
”If I did to my dog what they did to my father I would not be allowed to own a dog again."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The Nazi German universal health care system killed hundreds of thousands. The rumors were out there so people kept their elderly home to die rather than send them to the hospital. Frankly, if it were not such a huge burden on the family that is the preferable place to die. But my mother who is now a healthy, spry and very interactive 96 has been close to death many times over the last 30 years. Each time she’s fully recovered and we love having her with us. What if she’d been put on the death pathway when she got uterine cancer at age 70?
We all have a shelf life. Barry just decided when to clean out the cupboards. It’s the law.
Coming soon to an America near you!
Why didn’t they give it to him their selves?
I have instituted my own “pathway” as so I never make it that long. Vast quantities of coffee, unfiltered cigarrettes, and at least a fifth of whiskey a day, supplanted with a diet full of saturated fat.
Coming soon to an American near you!
(Death is highly individual. Will that be you? Will that be . . . me?)
They probably weren’t allowed to give him anything. Remember the Schaivo case in Florida? Family not allowed to visit without a keeper watching them.
That’s to be expected in a materialistic, hedonistic, nihilistic society that hates itself and wants to hasten its own end.
Excellent.
If you are not already buttering your bacon you should start.
You’re living the high life!
Why feed a thing if it’s going to die anyway, it’s the law after-all.
Coming soon to obamacare near you “what difference does it make”
Well that is a thought that ran through my head.
I would have at the very least gone to McDonalds and bought the old timer a Big Mac.
You betcha. One thing I noticed, though; This lifestyle seems to keep the Witnesses away.
When I fling open the front door in nothing but my skivvies, my bottle of V.O. in hand and yell, “COME ON IN, GIRLS! THE PARTY IS JUST STARTED!!!”, for some reason they always gasp, turn and run as fast as they can back to their car... and I don’t even get a Watchtower pamphlet. :(
My bacon is buttered on both sides.
Maybe they would be arrested, I wish I was kidding
Well there you go! I’d say you have your tagline. Run with it (and scissors too).
Well there you go! I’d say you have your tagline. Run with it (and scissors too).
Hiccough.
Well then, you’re doing about all that can be expected of you. Good job!
;-)
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