"I would not like to see us in Canada slide down this slippery slope. It is reminiscent of the “final solution” during the last war."
JUNE STEVENS, Windsor
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is the view from The Windsor Star -
THE
WINDSOR
It is regarding the ethics of euthanasia and how this is impacting severely ill seniors and their relatives in
Not all patients or their relatives are informed by the medical staff that the patient has been placed on this Pathway and as the patient has food and life support withdrawn from them at this point, this has serious ethical and legal ramifications.
Some patients are unaware that they are being allowed to die and did not give their consent.
There are many lawsuits ongoing at this point. Some patients are put on this Pathway by junior doctors and the patient’s regular doctor is unaware this has taken place.
Speaking with relatives in
I think it merits a serious investigation from the Canadian point of view and it would raise many interesting points regarding end of life discussions here in
I am appalled to learn that there is a payment made to the hospital by the government when this protocol is followed. I personally would want to make my own decisions about what appears to be, in my opinion, euthanasia, or at least have my relatives make the decision.
I would not like to see us in
JUNE STEVENS, Windsor
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Annette Wood · Ordsall high schoolmy mother was placed on the LCP and we didn't know what it was.we were told that they were going to make our mum more comfortable she lived for 4 days , she didn't meet any of the criteria for the LCP tickbox document , she had a collapsed lung which was re inflated, and she was due to come home until a junior doctor said mum had the matter of 4-6 hours to live then she was placed on the LCP and died 4 days later.We were told not to give her food or water as this would make her worse , we had to watch our mother suffer begging for food and water for 4 days.it wasnt till after her death that we had a meeting with her consultant who went on to say we could have given her food and water , she may of lived but we will never know now , we have made a formal complaint and still waiting to hear the outcome , my mum didn't deserve to be treated like this , this has to stop now , since mums death we have opened a group on facebook called HELP PUT A STOP TO THE LIVERPOOL CARE PATHWAY and we have lots of members who have been through the same as our family the hospital where my mum died recieves CQUIN PAYMENTS for putting people on lcp , unless you have seen this or have gone through this process you will never know how barbaric this is surely its against human rights this has to stop NOW.
We have the LPC in the USA too. It was started as part of Hillary Clinton's single payor insurance plan and our docs at UCLA went to Washington DC to set it up. Her plan never passed, but the LPC was incorporated into Obamacare which they deny over and over. However those of us in healthcare see what is going on. Now it is going full steam ahead. They still will not give it a name (like death panels), but it is being used by every hospital with the rollout of "palliative care". My Dad was murdered by two coordinating (business partner) hospitals when we refused hospice, as he was, until he got into Big Medicines hands, a very fit, athletic 93 y.o. (fitter than his fat overly pampered elitest docs). First was their insertion of an unnecessary trach so he could no longer eat normally or speak to his family (according to Ron Panzer in his Lynching of the Elderly and Disabled) a way to demoralize the patient and family into giving up and allowing euthanazia. He endured daily assaults for nearly 3 yrs and kept up the fight to live. If you are dying of a painful cancer than this could be an option, but they are now knocking people off right and left, who are totally curable and salvageable. They are also taking all the assets and wealth of the patient and families by balance billing for their malpractice and murder. If the family fights back, the patient is medically kidnapped as guardianship is assigned. The family is banished by the court and never allowed to see the patient again. California is where eugenics started, went to the Nazis and came back. It all sounds warm and fuzzy, but the rules are being totally ignored becaue of the money to be made from the Shared Savings Program. The government wants our Social Security accounts into which we have paid every month from our paychecks, and as soon as a person retires he/she is in the crosshairs. The idea is to knock us off before we get to use any of our own money. They have been very successful, because every judge, lawyer, elected leader, law enforcement official, and every oversight agency is in on this and making lots of money...because every head has a monetary value on it!! It is completely a sick perversion and must be stopped. It is a cancer spreading all over the world!
ReplyDeleteWe have the LPC in the USA too. It was started as part of Hillary Clinton's single payor insurance plan and our docs at UCLA went to Washington DC to set it up. Her plan never passed, but the LPC was incorporated into Obamacare which they deny over and over. However those of us in healthcare see what is going on. Now it is going full steam ahead. They still will not give it a name (like death panels), but it is being used by every hospital with the rollout of "palliative care". My Dad was murdered by two coordinating (business partner) hospitals when we refused hospice, as he was, until he got into Big Medicines hands, a very fit, athletic 93 y.o. (fitter than his fat overly pampered elitest docs). First was their insertion of an unnecessary trach so he could no longer eat normally or speak to his family (according to Ron Panzer in his Lynching of the Elderly and Disabled) a way to demoralize the patient and family into giving up and allowing euthanazia. He endured daily assaults for nearly 3 yrs and kept up the fight to live. If you are dying of a painful cancer than this could be an option, but they are now knocking people off right and left, who are totally curable and salvageable. They are also taking all the assets and wealth of the patient and families by balance billing for their malpractice and murder. If the family fights back, the patient is medically kidnapped as guardianship is assigned. The family is banished by the court and never allowed to see the patient again. California is where eugenics started, went to the Nazis and came back. It all sounds warm and fuzzy, but the rules are being totally ignored becaue of the money to be made from the Shared Savings Program. The government wants our Social Security accounts into which we have paid every month from our paychecks, and as soon as a person retires he/she is in the crosshairs. The idea is to knock us off before we get to use any of our own money. They have been very successful, because every judge, lawyer, elected leader, law enforcement official, and every oversight agency is in on this and making lots of money...because every head has a monetary value on it!! It is completely a sick perversion and must be stopped. It is a cancer spreading all over the world!
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