A medical ethics “expert”, Baroness Warnock, employed by Britain’s National Health Service, would like to see more senile people topping themselves:
“If you are demented you are wasting people’s lives, your family’s lives and you are wasting the resources of the NHS.
“I am fully in agreement with the argument that if pain is insufferable then someone should be given help to die.”
This is now a serious part of the “medical ethics” policy debate in Britain and Europe. Euthanasia is on the radar. But really, if you’re senile then surely, by definition, you’re not capable of making such an important decision about your own welfare. And if senile people are encouraged to do it because they’re a burden, why stop there? Why not children with autism? They’re equally a burden on their family and the medical system.
This is a genie best kept in the bottle.
{ 2 } Comments
Lawyers lick their lips at the thought of this one.
It’s a win win for the legal industry, regardless of what side they’ll be on. Particularly in the cases where greedy children are concerned, and slowly dying Daddy refuses to go as fast as the children are praying for, so they can reap the rewards of his hard work.
I can see generation Y influencing the direction of euthanasia when they arrive in their 50s. Parents of generation Y children should take them out of their wills now and let them know. They are the most spoilt, undeserving generation ever.
NHS in Britain needs a complete overhaul. Maybe it’s the waste of space !