Posted on 05/23/2005 5:41:03 PM PDT by sionnsar
THIS WEEK Leslie Burke sat in court in a wheelchair and listened while lawyers argued whether he should be starved and dehydrated to death. The lawyers arguing in favour of the proposition were egged on by the Secretary of State for Health, who deemed it too expensive to feed and water the ailing patient.
The General Medical Council was contending before the court that decisions over treatment were for doctors, not patients, ignoring utterly the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act which allow patients to make living wills denying themselves treatment and which will bind any doctor who might take a different view. In other words, a patient may choose to die and his wishes will be paramount but if he chooses to live he is to be deemed an expensive impediment to the authority of the medical profession. Of course, the Hippocratic oath is no longer automatically required, so it is possible for these doctors to look Mr Burke in the eye and tell him that it is their right to starve him to death….
This manages to be at once both chilling and outrageous. Read it all. We are moving far more rapidly than I had feared from the demonic lie of euthanasia to a policy of outright medical murder.
This method is sheer torture, and to this man who evidently is cognizant of his situation, infinitely moreso.
It's a devious way of absolving one's self in participating in murder to refuse nutrition.
Does make one wonder if Western "civilisation" really exists anymore. Barbarism seems to be the rule of the day.
Tell him to move to Arkansas and I will be his physician and will take care of him. If he has no way to pay I will donate my services for free.
Tell him to move to Arkansas and I will be his physician and will take care of him. If he has no way to pay I will donate my services for free.
If you post this on the general news forum many British FRers will crop up and claim nothing is wrong and it-is-all-you-hypersensitive-and-hypocritical-Yanks-who are fanning-this-up voice will be heard all over this. Britain as a nation is in a worse shape than I have ever realized - their conservatives are not even as conservative as New Zealand conservatives.
This is also reflected in the British Anglicans' state. True, the ECUSA is more vocally liberal, but it seems to me the Church of England is not far behind and worse, there are no serious conservative rebellion against the libs in that organization. It best fits what Jesus rebuked the church at Laodicea in Revelation 3:16: lukewarm.
Another EXCELLENT reason against government healthcare!
Prayers for Mr.Burke!!!!
Thank you, therut for offering to care for Mr. Burke.
Now all he needs is a sponsor to help bring him here
and it is a done deal.
Any churches willing to step up to the plate?
Where is Amnesty International on this one?
For that matter, the UN commission on Human Rights?
What would it take to bring him here?
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