Thursday 14 May 2009

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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4 comments:

Kate said...

As with the current MP's expenses fiasco, how can anyone have confidence in the RCN when it appears to be seeking to bend the law?

Brantigny said...

President Obama will probably take this up soon too.

Brantigny
http://lefleurdelystoo.blogspot.com/

Patricius said...

So spot on I hesitate to sound a critical note but while I understand your choice of terms here as a means of evoking a contrast with the "Gospel of Life" I wonder if you might be able to come up with a more appropriate word. "Gospel", after all, is a very positive term- "good news" and carries implications of sanctity or sacredness. The best I can think of is "ideology of death"- but that is neutral and therefore only marginally better.

Jan Baker said...

Don't worry, it's already happening in the US, without changing any laws. They're just doing it. I just got my 'affairs in order,' as they say (the will and powers of attorney, etc.) and went for the free service provided to all senior citizens at our 'centers' here in Chicago, and the Health Care Power of Attorney they provided me gave them legal permission to pull the plug for all reasons, including "expense." It's only one paragraph and I could quote the whole thing here but I put it away already in the file. I got a good and different one from the 'Will to Live' people and if you put that it google you'll get to it, which specifically forbids them to withhold treatment because of expense, and does not allow them to kill you with a morphine drip, but only to administer enough to control pain. That's their new trick. I don't doubt they actually withhold pain medication if you forbid them to kill you with it, because they already use this trick in countries under some form of crisis, when they withhold donated food from families until the woman aborts any baby she is carrying and gets sterilized, or agrees to it. This is a common UN practice now, Planned Parenthood's scheme. You do realize the only solution possible is to undo Vatican II's teaching on secularism, don't you? The only solution possible in health care is the restoration, because only that kind of society can provide non-profit and humane health care, via the religious orders that were disbanded and thrown out at the time of the reformation, when the destruction of health care began. Only when we accept Christ as King will this stop. All half measures will end in this situation, simply because the basic premise is flawed. Meanwhile, they are definitely coming to kill us in Chicago, too. I have a post on this on the blog.

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