Re: Parents demanding NHS pay to send dying sprog to US July 30, 2017 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 2,351 |
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kman
The issue in the US is that the bioethics has evolved to be similar to the utilitarian, futile-care theory in vogue in countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, where the notion that it is preferable to euthanize or simply to deny treatment to some patients under some conditions has taken root. Such patients are encouraged to kill themselves, with doctors there even assuring them that their organs could be transplanted so the patients' death would be beneficial to society.
Re: Parents demanding NHS pay to send dying sprog to US July 30, 2017 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 1,227 |
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kittehpeoples
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kman
The issue in the US is that the bioethics has evolved to be similar to the utilitarian, futile-care theory in vogue in countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, where the notion that it is preferable to euthanize or simply to deny treatment to some patients under some conditions has taken root. Such patients are encouraged to kill themselves, with doctors there even assuring them that their organs could be transplanted so the patients' death would be beneficial to society.
I've seen several loved ones go through their end-of-life care here in the US, some on Medicare and Medicaid, and I have NEVER seen one of them encouraged to kill themselves. I've seen them encouraged to continue expensive and pointless treatments, leaving behind massive debt, but I've never heard of anyone being encouraged to kill themselves.
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