British doctor admits to starving babies to death.

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This is outrageous. He says the process only takes 10 days to kill the infant and has published his findings in a medical journal.

This is what happens when the government dictates healthcare policy.

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Now sick babies go on death pathway: Doctor's haunting testimony reveals how children are put on end-of-life plan

Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’.

Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults.

But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.

One doctor has admitted starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in the neonatal unit of one hospital alone.

Writing in a leading medical journal, the physician revealed the process can take an average of ten days during which a baby becomes ‘smaller and shrunken’.

The LCP – on which 130,000 elderly and terminally-ill adult patients die each year – is now the subject of an independent inquiry ordered by ministers.

The investigation, which will include child patients, will look at whether cash payments to hospitals to hit death pathway targets have influenced doctors’ decisions.

Medical critics of the LCP insist it is impossible to say when a patient will die and as a result the LCP death becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. They say it is a form of euthanasia, used to clear hospital beds and save the NHS money.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...als-children-end-life-plan.html#ixzz2DcUKj73D
 
Earlier this month, an un-named doctor wrote of the agony of watching the protracted deaths of babies. The doctor described one case of a baby born with ‘a lengthy list of unexpected congenital anomalies’, whose parents agreed to put it on the pathway.

The doctor wrote: ‘They wish for their child to die quickly once the feeding and fluids are stopped. They wish for pneumonia. They wish for no suffering. They wish for no visible changes to their precious baby.


‘Their wishes, however, are not consistent with my experience. Survival is often much longer than most physicians think; reflecting on my previous patients, the median time from withdrawal of hydration to death was ten days.

Well, if you're pro-choice then you shouldn't see any problem with this. What the difference between killing the baby inside the womb vs outside? I guess inside the womb is more humane?:rolleyes: Well, I guess it's not all for naught - Satan and his demons are getting quite a kick out of it.


‘Parents and care teams are unprepared for the sometimes severe changes that they will witness in the child’s physical appearance as severe dehydration ensues.

‘I know, as they cannot, the unique horror of witnessing a child become smaller and shrunken, as the only route out of a life that has become excruciating to the patient or to the parents who love their baby.’

Am I missing something here?! These parents agreed to have their child placed into this "LCP." If they loved their baby so much, why would they do this? "Yea, I love my wife or my kids or whoever so much I'm going to throw them in a dungeon and let 'em die of dehydration." Is there reality, or am I dreaming or something? Parents and care teams are unprepared for the severe changes?! "Oh yea, I was unprepared for the bloody mess that ensued after blowing your head off with a shotgun. Yea, still shocked by that one. Guess I wouldn't have done it if I knew it would be such a pain to witness and clean up."
 
This struck me as a rather horrific way to go when it happened to a close friend of mine very recently. I haven't had a chance to speak with the family long enough to learn if there was another option offered. At this point, I am under the impression that there was not. He was an elderly person in a nursing home with a degenerative disease.
 
Welcome to gov't health care.

Liberals will whole-heartedly support this, as long as it's portrayed as a money-saving plan that will benefit the greater good at the expense of the individual. In other words, if they think it means more cash for them, then starving babies is ok.
 
This struck me as a rather horrific way to go when it happened to a close friend of mine very recently. I haven't had a chance to speak with the family long enough to learn if there was another option offered. At this point, I am under the impression that there was not. He was an elderly person in a nursing home with a degenerative disease.

I share the same opinion. But for the sake of argument, my late MIL was a nursing home nurse. She said that old, sick people lose their appetites. They don't feel starvation the way healthy do, because it's part of the natural process of a body that is shutting down. They do not want food.

But like I said, I share the same opinion. I want the damned feeding tube. I do not want to starve to death.
 
Liberals will whole-heartedly support this, as long as it's portrayed as a money-saving plan that will benefit the greater good at the expense of the individual. In other words, if they think it means more cash for them, then starving babies is ok.

Utilitarians and Eugenicists can both come together on this.


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I share the same opinion. But for the sake of argument, my late MIL was a nursing home nurse. She said that old, sick people lose their appetites. They don't feel starvation the way healthy do, because it's part of the natural process of a body that is shutting down. They do not want food.

But like I said, I share the same opinion. I want the damned feeding tube. I do not want to starve to death.

Well, he was no longer able to eat or drink even with help. There was no doubt it was his time, but I know this family very well, and the looks on their faces, uh.
 
Well, if you're pro-choice then you shouldn't see any problem with this. What the difference between killing the baby inside the womb vs outside? I guess inside the womb is more humane?:rolleyes: Well, I guess it's not all for naught - Satan and his demons are getting quite a kick out of it.

Yup.

Please, pro-choice members of RPFs, tell me how this is different from abortion. And, for the love of God, no arguments that invoke Vitalism. Thanks.
 
If I get too old and infirm to function please send me off to the woods with a syringe full of heroin and a full belly...
 
Who could do these things? Hell, I have a hard time not letting a stray cat in--and I don't really like cats.
 
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