Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Euthanasia creeping in

GPs have been asked to select one in every 100 of their patients to go on a list of those likely to die over the next 12 months.
The patients will be singled out for ‘end-of-life care’,  potentially saving the NHS more than £1billion a year.

My, how the vulnerable are slowly being targetted.  This reminds me of a philosophical thought and ethical experiment. Would you vote for a person who had the power and wisdom to fulfil all the nations dreams except there was one criterion : that person could kill one person during his reign? Perhaps my thought experiment is becoming more real. 

"We can save billions of the NHS if we help 1% of people die each year. Please vote for us."

Voting for a party is no longer about honesty, intergity, human sacredness, protecting the vulnerable. It is about pragmatism, popularity, competing ideas, majority at expense of the vulnerable.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2218790/Put-1-100-patients-death-list-GPs-told-Frailest-asked-choose-end-life-care.html#ixzz29YlGPQWN

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