Just Shut Up and Get On the Ice Floe, They Explained

All you selfish senior citizens ruining Obamacare for the rest of us.

It seems every time I see the word bioethicist in a news story or article, they are advocating doing horrible things to babies or old folks, usually by neglect, sometimes by direct action.

Death Panels At Work Already, I See

"Flu vaccine barely worked in people over 65."

Gee, Sarah Palin Was Right

"Krugman: Death Panels and Sales Taxes Is How We Do This."

Meurent Plus Vite, Putain!

Which is French (I hope) for Die Faster, Whore!

France should allow doctors to “accelerate the coming of death” for terminally ill patients, a report to President Francois Hollande recommended Tuesday.

Hollande referred the report to a national council on medical ethics which will examine the precise circumstances under which such steps could be authorised with a view to producing draft legislation by June 2013.

If the legislation is in accord with an individual's expressed desire to end his/her pain and suffering, I'm cautiously supportive; if, however, it is done to anyone who hasn't explicitly expressed such a desire, then I do not support it.

Old Veterans Need Expensive Care

And when the veteran is the WWII-era submarine USS Clamagore the decision to pull the plug on her is easier than if she were a human veteran.

The death panel will meet in the next few months to decide whether Clamagore will end up as a reef.

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.

Death Panel Says...Sorry, Soldier

But we won't pay for your cancer treatment with Avastin.

Run along and die now, there's a good fellow.

Death Panel Says Dreadfully Sorry...

...about letting your mom starve to death.

Thou Shalt Not Gainsay...

...the Death Panel.

Apparently the Cost of an X-Ray...

...was too much for the UK death panel.

Sorry 'bout that!

OK, So It's Not a Death Panel...

...just a blindness panel.

Killed By Her Own Death Panel

In UK, a former National Health Service director died while waiting for a follow-up stomach operation at her own hospital.

Remember: If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.

We Have You Listed As Dead; Be A Dear, Hurry Up And Die

It's much easier that way, we don't have to correct our records, oh, the paperwork involved, oh, the misery...

A cancer patient in UK tries to convince the death panel National Health Service that he isn't really deceased...yet.

The Death Panel Has Made Its Decision

So sorry. Letting you live would cost too much.

Caesar Says What?

UK Health Care: Oops, Sorry About That, Part 7,924

But we promise to do better next time.

You know what? Maybe the perception of what comprises a death panel isn't so much a small group of cold-eyed, heartless bureaucrats making decisions on who is to live and who is to die based on cost-benefit analysis; maybe it's simply apathetic nurses and apologetic, ineffectual doctors, because it certainly seems that such people effectively ended Mrs. Kennedy's life as efficiently as the heartless bureaucrats would have.

update: and the heartless thieves will even steal the rings from your amputated arm.

UK: Death Panels Hard At Work

Got to get these old geezers off the rolls, they're too much of an expense...

h/t Drudge Report.