There is too much evidence that the LCP is being used by some doctors as euthanasia by the back door, and that they are wilfully failing to consult: the Health Secretary will be ignored
Topic: euthanasia
Jeremy Hunt orders an inquiry into the Liverpool Care Pathway, and says patients and relatives must be consulted. But will the doctors pay any attention?
Posted on Friday, 9 November 2012
My brother’s happy death was the kind we all wish for
Posted on Monday, 5 November 2012
It was a significant contrast to the sad, hasty and solitary deaths so many people are subjected to, not least on the Liverpool Care Pathway
Sydney bishop says at Oxford University: let’s not kill off elderly to cut costs
Posted on Friday, 19 October 2012
In a lecture Bishop Anthony Fisher says cost-cutting may lead to a compromise on basic moral principles
The number of ‘do not resuscitate’ (DNR) notices being imposed without consultation is now a national scandal. What will the BMA do about it?
Posted on Friday, 14 September 2012
It’s time for a few doctors to be prosecuted or struck off
A BMJ editorial is now saying that our law should pay less attention to the sanctity of human life, and that lives not worth living should be ended: what’s going on?
Posted on Thursday, 19 July 2012
It’s also saying that brain-damaged and demented people just cost too much: what’s happened to medical ethics?
Ethicist says keeping people alive wastes money
Posted on Thursday, 19 July 2012
A professor has suggested in the BMJ that hydrating and feeding dementia patients ‘skews’ resources
How do Christians offer an alternative to the ‘nonsense all around us’?
The growing acceptance of euthanasia represents the triumph of atheism over European society