The title of the article was dreadfully inaccurate.
What I take issue with is the idea that NOT providing cardiac pulmonary resuscitation, CPR, to someone dying a natural death of old age is somehow “euthanasia”.
I read the entire article. Then I read the letters commenting on that article. The whole thing was ginned up to be as sensational as possible.
One of the comments came from a doctor who admitted there are horrifying situations in the HHS that need to be rectified. Not discussing with patiints and families their wishes concerning whether extensive efforts to keep a dying patient alive near the end of death should occur, must be discusseed and many times is not due to a crushing work load.
We in the USA have a profit-driven health system that will literally keep people alive to drain every cent possible out of an estate or insurance company. This is the reason my father emphatically insisted that DNR be on all his health records.
In the British HHS there is no profit motive to keep people alive; instead there is every reason to make a person’s time in the health system as short as possible.
I do not want socialized medacine here in the USA, and do not approve of how HHS is operated in Britain. But I dislike sensationalized reporting even less.