When did it become acceptable to describe killing someone as 'shortening their lives', as seems to be happening around the Gosport WM Hospital report? Smacks of trying to soften the blow, imply limited remaining life expectancy of victims and avoid the word 'murder' to me.
I totally understand that. For me, this is about consent. It's one thing to request/agree to such a treatment plan, but entirely another to have a life-ending intervention imposed upon you without your consent. The patient should be at the heart of all of this, imho.
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That is true however we need to get a sense of proportion. It’s right that the patient and the family should be at the centre of care but doctors helping people have a pain free death is not the same as murder.
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It's not murder if that's what the patient wants, of course. But it may well be murder if done without consent, imho. Cases where patients had no terminal diagnosis particularly concern me. Ones where a falsely applied terminal diagnosis is later exposed, concern me even more.
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No one is suggesting that’s what happened here. These cases were all in end of life care.
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That's not my understanding. This was a rehabilitation ward. I believe several who were killed by this intervention were not in end of life care - until it was imposed upon them. A broken hip for example, is obviously not in itself terminal. And Gosport is just 1 example, btw.
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We agree on that. I still think is a complicated area though.
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