Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Be Your Own Death Panel!

A UK Doctor offers "a deeply provocative confession" that most medical professionals such as himself would rather not be subjected to the heroic measures and treatments typically used in terminally ill patients (such as those with cancer).

He advocates just putting on a stiff upper lip and refusing treatment, just lie there quietly in your sickbed until death comes for you.

Left unsaid is that it's less of an expense to the State if you do it that way.

Also left unsaid is that doctors like himself have an option unavailable to the general public, which is to self-administer a lethal dose of meds - - illegal, of course, but you can't prosecute a corpse. And the State saves money even in that instance.

1 comment:

KurtP said...

AND- since he's got the right connections, he'd get the good stuff the proletariat doesn't even know exists.