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UK NHS: Dementia sufferers may have a 'duty to die'
Elderly people suffering from dementia should consider ending their lives because they are a burden on the NHS and their families, according to the influential medical ethics expert Baroness Warnock.
She's a kook, and certainly no expert of any medical ethics I know. Apparently she's not heard of the Hippocratic Oath.
The veteran Government adviser said pensioners in mental decline are "wasting people's lives" because of the care they require and should be allowed to opt for euthanasia even if they are not in pain.

She insisted there was "nothing wrong" with people being helped to die for the sake of their loved ones or society. The 84-year-old added that she hoped people will soon be "licensed to put others down" if they are unable to look after themselves.
So.. she wants to kill Stephen Hawking because he is obviously worthless by her criteria.
Hawking, and you, and me, when we're old and infirm. Spit.
Her comments in a magazine interview have been condemned as "immoral" and "barbaric", but also sparked fears that they may find wider support because of her influence on ethical matters.

Lady Warnock, a former headmistress who went on to become Britain's leading moral philosopher, chaired a landmark Government committee in the 1980s that established the law on fertility treatment and embryo research.

A prominent supporter of euthanasia, she has previously suggested that pensioners who do not want to become a burden on their carers should be helped to die.
Families work out the burdens on their own without government help. It's a very short step, as Europe learned, from 'voluntary' to involuntary euthanasia. Once you start killing you just can't stop.
Last year the Mental Capacity Act came into effect that gives legal force to "living wills", so patients can appoint an "attorney" to tell doctors when their hospital food and water should be removed.

But in her latest interview, given to the Church of Scotland's magazine Life and Work, Lady Warnock goes further by claiming that dementia sufferers should consider ending their lives through euthanasia because of the strain they put on their families and public services.
Or, she could just kill them ...
Britain's leading moral philosopher?
Ouch... and then she went directly to hell.
Sooner the better. Spit.

Posted by: 3dc 2008-09-19
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