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Posted on 05/03/2006 4:33:39 PM PDT by wagglebee
LANCASTER, England, May 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A 45-year-old man who fears his doctors may refuse him food and water has taken his case to the European Court of Human Rights, reported the BBC today.
Les Burke suffers from a brain illness, cerebella ataxia, which may result in his eventual paralysis. He faces a likely future of being unable to move or speak, but with full mental capacity.
Under General Medical Council guidelines, his doctors would be permitted to withdraw food and water from him once his condition deteriorates. Mr. Burke is trying to ensure that does not happen.
A British High Court ruling that would have prevented his doctors from withdrawing essential nutrition from him was overturned last year when the GMC appealed the ruling. Mr. Burke was refused the right to appeal to the Lords.
Mr. Burke’s lawyer, Muiris Lyons, told the BBC, “We were very surprised that the Lords said the case did not have a significant public interest.” Mr. Lyons said denying Mr. Burke food and water would be a denial of his human rights.
Health officials said the original ruling left too much room for patients to make further treatment demands, and the GMC said doctors would be in an impossible position if Mr. Burke wins his case.
A proposed amendment to a Mental Capacity Bill that would have prevented common removal of food and water from terminal patients was defeated in the UK parliament in December 2004.
The pro-life group LIFE warned at the time that the bill as it stood could “open the floodgates” for euthanasia, describing the bill as “[an] underhand attempt to licence euthanasia by omission – which would surely be the first step to licensing euthanasia by a direct action, i.e. by commission.”
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
UK Court Rules Doctors May Withdraw Life-Sustaining Food and Water
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05072807.html
UK Parliament Defeats Measure to Prevent Food and Water From Being Easily Removed From Dying Patients
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/dec/04121505.html
This is disgusting!
Ping, the Culture of Death marches on.
DISCUSSION ABOUT:
"UK Man Goes to European Court Asking that He not be Starved to Death in Hospital"
As I've said before, the "choice" to "die with dignity" has always been a sham!
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After all,it *is* a *European* court.
This is the undoing of the western nations at it's starkest evil, the killing of those who are unable to defend themselves. It is a culture of death when a thinking person can be starved to death by cold hearted doctor's who don't and can't feel the pain of these people.
The nazi's did the same with their doctors when they murdered the jews under the guise of less the human rationalization. This is why I hate the left, they push the love of death under the guise of love.
Hateful neo nazis is what they really are.
Terri Schiavo was killed by a COURT order which overruled the frantic efforts of her own FAMILY to save her life.
The Left keeps saying these are private decisions to be made by individuals and their families. That is exactly how it used to be, and would be again, in a free-market system. However, private decisions are next to impossible in bureaucratic government systems. That's where the problem is. So, let the Left straighten out their thinking and join us in leading the charge back to a free marketplace for medicine where decisions remain private.
Any way that we can get this man into safety?
Good thinking.
What an abomination.
It has been my belief for a long time that the leftist eugenics movement has used words to trick the public. It starts with giving people a "choice" to kill their unborn child or end their own life with "dignity." We are reaching a point where any pretense of choice is rapidly being removed, the state is beginning to decide who is and isn't worthy of life. Six decades ago, 50 million people died fighting eugenics, God help us if it comes to that again.
I suppose if he left the UK he would be safe.
Well, I would not relocate in Judge Greer's Florida fiefdom
This is far worse that Schiavo (with which I was also disgusted).
There reasonable minds could disagree --- although I certainly saw the better side of the argument not being Greers.
Here, there is NO question that the man's mind will be intact.
Basically, he's too expensive to have around.
Welcome to HillaryCare --- the HMO that kills for the common good.
he should immigrate to america but no where near florida or houston texas
Don't take him to Florida...
Oh I'm sure doctors would never remove someones feeding tube who was still alive...oh wait.........
bump
A subject on which I wax equally indignant, as do such diverse thinkers as George Orwell, G.K. Chesterton, Richard Weaver and Ralph Waldo Emerson, among many others. We're in pretty good company :-)
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