[eeevil conservative]

This article is just horrifying!



Eleven elderly patients on the same hospital ward were deliberately starved to death, an inquest was told yesterday.

The patients, all men aged between 67 and 93, died after having their food and drink needlessly withdrawn, according to relatives.



After a police investigation into the deaths, which happened between 1995-97, the Crown Prosecution Service decided that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. Three members of the hospital staff have remained suspended on full pay for the past eight years.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/19/nhosp19.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/01/19/ixhome.html

read all of it!

[maine-iac7]

He said that if "food and fluid was withdrawn at a time when they were perfectly capable of accepting it all because it was arbitrarily decided that it was time for them to die", it would amount to a policy that had been "totally unacceptable since the dark ages".

However, he said: "If it should transpire that food and fluids were withdrawn in good faith and in the not unreasonable belief that it was in their best interests as the lesser of two evils, committing them to die in as much comfort and dignity as possible. . . it would be grossly unfair to record a verdict other than that of death by natural causes."

legalese for "giant loophole?"

so as long as you kill then in "good faith" - it's acceptable?

Lord, save us from the legalese parsing of lawyers and judges - It "IS" murder

[olliecollie]

Read yur link this morning and a google search brought up this London Times article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-995117_1,00.html

Which cites two other hospitals under investigation for questionable deaths. One 62 elderly patients!! it is mind boggling.

Great victory today you won for Mae, and I am so thrilled , I did come in late this evening to lend a hand with e-mails just as you posted the good news that Mae was out of the Hospice on the way to hospital.