Euthanasia in the NHS.

The practice of euthanasia is alive and well in our beloved NHS (the envy of the world):

Eleven elderly patients on the same hospital ward were deliberately starved to death, an inquest was told yesterday.

That’s the allegation of course. The judge remarks:

He said that if "food and fluid was withdrawn at a time when they were perfectly capable of accepting it all because it was arbitrarily decided that it was time for them to die", it would amount to a policy that had been "totally unacceptable since the dark ages".

Well, yes, it would be the deliberate killing of senile old men and we don’t do that. Well, maybe:

However, he said: "If it should transpire that food and fluids were withdrawn in good faith and in the not unreasonable belief that it was in their best interests as the lesser of two evils, committing them to die in as much comfort and dignity as possible. . . it would be grossly unfair to record a verdict other than that of death by natural causes."

So condemning the elderly mentally ill to death by starvation and dehydration is natural causes now?

Dr Claire Royston, a consultant psychiatrist, said that doctors often allow terminally ill patients to starve to death by deliberately stopping their food.

Not only is it natural causes, it’s common practice.
A small piece of advice for anyone reaching the end of their golden years. Stay at home, or if that is not possible, go into a hospice. It appears that the NHS (the envy of the world) would rather starve you to death.