Very disturbing article about an unexplained rise in deaths over the past eighteen months: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/25/labour-investigation-deaths-older-people?CMP=twt_gu
If you recall, there has been a seemingly endless succession of stories in the media about the "rights" of terminally ill people to receive assistance to commit suicide.
Alarmed commentators have warned that this would result in pressure on very elderly people to end their lives on the spurious grounds that their lives are not worth living (in terms of participation in consumer culture).
Is this what has happened here?
Is it possible that the pro-suicide lobby, agitating for the law to be changed, has acted as a "nudge" to nurses and other care workers effectively telling them that it is OK to kill people?
"I wish I was dead" is a rhetorical wail uttered by most elderly people (particularly elderly women who are lonely and feel unloved). They do not actually mean they wish they were dead. But is it possible that stupid, spiteful, amoral NHS nurses (and we know such nurses exist as two were struck off yesterday) have taken them at their word and "assisted" them into oblivion?
Society must have zero tolerance of suicide.
If you recall, there has been a seemingly endless succession of stories in the media about the "rights" of terminally ill people to receive assistance to commit suicide.
Alarmed commentators have warned that this would result in pressure on very elderly people to end their lives on the spurious grounds that their lives are not worth living (in terms of participation in consumer culture).
Is this what has happened here?
Is it possible that the pro-suicide lobby, agitating for the law to be changed, has acted as a "nudge" to nurses and other care workers effectively telling them that it is OK to kill people?
"I wish I was dead" is a rhetorical wail uttered by most elderly people (particularly elderly women who are lonely and feel unloved). They do not actually mean they wish they were dead. But is it possible that stupid, spiteful, amoral NHS nurses (and we know such nurses exist as two were struck off yesterday) have taken them at their word and "assisted" them into oblivion?
Society must have zero tolerance of suicide.
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