Royal College of Nursing Declares Love for Gospel of Death

Florence Nightingale: "Right, now which one of you, useless, burdensome, expensive old crones wants a fatal dose of barbiturates to send you to sleep forever? Oh, don't worry, assisted suicide isn't a Crimea!"

Dr Death leaves the country and lo and behold, a week or two later the Royal College of Nursing suggests that nurses be 'trained' on how to break current UK law and tell patients about the wonderful benefits of suicide. 'My work here is done!' he thinks. Coincidence? No...Clearly, the UK Government and many societies charged with the duty of care, rather than the duty of killing, are actually rather taken by Philip Nitschke's sadistic cult of death, because caring for the elderly, infirm and terminally ill people is costly, time-consuming and takes self-sacrifice and a great deal of professionalism, compassion and love. All of these virtues are more difficult to practice than knocking people off, so there is really only one answer. Knock people off. Let's tell the patients they are a burden and now that they are useless to the economy they really need to think about how selfish they are in still living...If patients are saying, "Someone just kill me! Being treated by the NHS is horrendous. I just want to die," then surely that says something about the NHS...

Courtesy of Times Online

Nurses are to receive detailed guidance for the first time on how to help terminally ill patients end their own lives. Assisted suicide remains illegal in Britain but the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says that many nurses are being asked by desperate patients about travelling abroad, such as to the Swiss clinic Dignitas, to end their lives. [A cry for help, maybe?]

The RCN has been opposed since 2004 to assisted suicide — actively helping people to die — but is consulting its 400,000 members about whether to reconsider this stance in the light of calls to change the law. [Rather than any actual change in British law, thereby making such a reconsideration in breach of UK law. I believe they call this a zeitgeist].

The review follows a number of high-profile cases [high profile because certain people wished the issue to come to the forefront of public opinion] in which Britons travelled to Switzerland to die, including Daniel James, 23, who was paralysed in a rugby accident, and Peter and Penny Duff, a couple from Bath who decided to die together in an apparent suicide pact.

Surveys suggest that up to 85 per cent of the public would like the option to take steps to end their own lives or allow others to do so if they became seriously ill or disabled or were experiencing intolerable suffering. [What's the percentage of the public in favour of the death penalty again and routine castration for paedophiles again?]

Peter Carter, the RCN’s general secretary, told The Times that regardless of whether the union relaxed its policy to become neutral on the issue or actively supported change in the law, healthcare staff needed better guidance to at least discuss assisted suicide and related legal issues with patients and their families. ["Now, dear, you're never going to get better, so here is a leaflet on assisted suicide. I'll leave it with you a while, have a browse. It's so expensive keeping you here, but, don't worry, you're not a burden."]

“Our members are already being asked by people what their options are,” he said. “If they are asked by a patient about Dignitas, we would like guidance to be available to clarify how they can give advice without fear of the consequences or potential prosecution.”

The Crown Prosecution Service has not prosecuted anyone who has accompanied any of the 100 British citizens who have travelled to the Swiss clinic’s facilities in Zurich to end their lives [Interesting, isn't it? Note: Not prosecuting = tacit approval]. However, some medical practitioners have been struck off or suspended for assisting friends and family to die in this way.

Actively helping someone to kill themselves is a crime under the 1961 Suicide Act, but this law has been tested by recent cases.

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