Death Panel Update: British Journal Article Recommends Dehydrating Dementia Patients to Death to Save Money

from The Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft:

Death Panel Update: British Journal Article Recommends Dehydrating Dementia Patients to Death to Save Money:
Coming soon to Obama’s America…



Britain’s Socialist Health Care System Euthanizes 130,000 Elderly Patients Every Year
A recent editorial in the British Medical Journal recommends dehydrating dementia patients to death to save money.

Lifesite News reported:

The courts should not interfere with doctors who want to dehydrate to death incapacitated patients who are a drain on scarce financial resources, according to an editorial in this week’s edition of the prestigious British Medical Journal.
Raanan Gillon, emeritus professor of medical ethics and former chairman of the Institute of Medical Ethics governing body, wrote that a ruling last year by the High Court against dehydrating an incapacitated patient to death was “profoundly disturbing” because it took the life and death decision-making power out of the hands of doctors and required that the principle of the “sanctity of life” take precedence over other considerations.

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