This topical subject arises again.
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I have watched this documentary and was aware of some of the topics discussed. This was filmed before the current bill that is going through parliament and it is interesting to see how things have moved on.
I just want to add a note here relating to our experience which is related to this but it is the opposite in the sense that in our case doctors are refusing to carry out procedures that would help a loved one is being cared for.
On more than one occasion, the procedures have been discussed and put on the table as things that can be done and implied that it can be done. This is always at the initial stage, but as we are passed along the chain towards to senior consultants or consultants who will carry out the procedure the story starts to change. Now we start being told it might be too risky or the loved one is too fragile or there may be complications due to comorbidities (note: there are no comorbidities and the loved one is actually not at all fragile). And slowly as we reach point of treatment, the best option is suddenly taken off the table with no proof or supporting evidence that it is not appropriate or risky.
Each time, they talk about DNR (Do not resuscitate) and always try to get us to agree, but we don’t as it is not based on merit.
Luckily for us, or by the grace if God or however you may want to see it, on each of these occasions, somehow, our loved on has been discharged back home and gone on to get stronger than when she was admitted and after she had been weakened by being denied food/nutrition and being kept on a drip.
The point I am making here, is whilst the doctors take a Hippocratic Oath, which I understand to mean ethical and in the best interest of the patient, this has not been the way some of the doctors have acted when treating our loved one.
To put it bluntly, they are essentially doing licensed murder and in the cruellest manner by starving our loved one who is nil-by-mouth. I can categorically say that were it not for our loved one having her family to advocate for us, she would not be here today due to the decisions the doctors were discussing and which they would have taken.
So as well as assisted s u i c i d e we also have licensed m u r d e r.
The views in this comment are based on actual experiences and it is shocking to thing it has happened more than one and continues to happen we have the misfortune to go to the hospital for help.
Thank you for reading.
I note this topic has previously been discussed on another thread from earlier on last year (may 2024).
I further note, this topic is being discussed more openly e.g. on social media and also with the bill going through parliament.
Namaste|
Seventy years ago when I was little more than a toddler I was terrified. The death penalty was being discussed and in my childish way I was aware of it, convinced that somehow I could end up being executed.
In this country we stopped killing people. In the last 70 years lack of killing did not create havoc or mayhem. There was no sudden rise in murder or violence. It seems peace did work.
More recently we have seen killing re-introduced as a useful tool. The police force are now supplied with lethal weapons and encouraged to appear wielding them in public. Somehow the fact that these folk have been trained to kill and move among us is viewed as acceptable.
This notion that killing is useful is also appearing amidst the medical community. It seems sanctioned killing should be viewed with favour and encouraged.
There is more that can be said but primarily I feel dread in connection with these matters. To march steadily towards one’s death is short sighted and nihilistic.
I hope discussion of these matters is not censured or hidden.