Depressing News From The NHS
Posted by Meg | Posted in Big Issues, Health-Care, Must See, News, Socialism, Socialized Medicine | Posted on 03-09-2009
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You absolutely have to read this article from Britain’s Daily Telegraph. Now.
Sentenced To Death On The NHS
“Patients with terminal illness are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today.”
This is so depressing it made me cry. British doctors are starving people to death, sedating them to the point where even if their conditions improved, you’d never know it. That’s the National Health Service, that’s government-run health care for you.
Please, don’t let this happen here. No one wants to die with so little dignity, starved because some one else decided it was your time to die. Only our creator truly knows when our time is. It is certainly not the place of our doctor to decide that death is certainly on its way, so we shouldn’t waste any further resources on our behalf.
But sadly, that’s the reality when resources are scarce and there’s only one provider. Resources aren’t endless and cuts are made wherever possible. More often than not, it’s the chronically ill and the dying who pay the price with their dignity, with their lives. Please, I say again, do not let this happen here.

