The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is used in hospitals for patients who are terminally ill or are expected to die imminently. Under the pathway, doctors can withdraw treatment, food and water while patients are heavily sedated.

Almost a third of patients - 130,000 - who die in hospital or under NHS care a year are on the LCP.

Professor Pullicino said he believed the LCP was being used as an "assisted death pathway" with patients placed on the LCP without clear evidence

The senior consultant at East Kent Hospitals told the Royal Society of Medicine he had personally intervened to have a 71-year-old man taken off the LCP and be treated successfully, despite claims he was expected to die within hours or days. He had arrived in hospital with pneumonia and epilepsy.

"I removed the patient from the LCP despite significant resistance," he said. "His seizures came under control and four weeks later he was discharged home to his family.

"Very likely many elderly patients who could live substantially longer are being killed by the LCP. Patients are frequently put on the pathway without a proper analysis of their condition," he added.

pippin wrote:

When we reach 70 we are of no further use to the community. We just drain public funds to keep us alive. Isn't that right, Pops?

PopsFrost wrote:

pippin wrote:

When we reach 70 we are of no further use to the community. We just drain public funds to keep us alive. Isn't that right, Pops?

Actually, I thought of you while posting that story. I now understand why you fled the UK.

pippin wrote:

When we reach 70 we are of no further use to the community. We just drain public funds to keep us alive. Isn't that right, Pops? I just want to get back to my Voodoo Princess's pussy. She stormed out of the Prince of Darkness's palace, where she had a chamber, when the mad old bat, Emmanuelle, turned up. Partly my fault 'cause I stayed away to avoid the old bint. Had I been there when the cat fight started, I would have taken my Princess to my home. A glorious fuck up, bollocks!

AllahBlowsPigs wrote:

pippin wrote:

When we reach 70 we are of no further use to the community. We just drain public funds to keep us alive. Isn't that right, Pops? I just want to get back to my Voodoo Princess's pussy. She stormed out of the Prince of Darkness's palace, where she had a chamber, when the mad old bat, Emmanuelle, turned up. Partly my fault 'cause I stayed away to avoid the old bint. Had I been there when the cat fight started, I would have taken my Princess to my home. A glorious fuck up, bollocks!

You couldn't be any more boring.

pippin wrote:

AllahBlowsPigs wrote:

pippin wrote:

When we reach 70 we are of no further use to the community. We just drain public funds to keep us alive. Isn't that right, Pops? I just want to get back to my Voodoo Princess's pussy. She stormed out of the Prince of Darkness's palace, where she had a chamber, when the mad old bat, Emmanuelle, turned up. Partly my fault 'cause I stayed away to avoid the old bint. Had I been there when the cat fight started, I would have taken my Princess to my home. A glorious fuck up, bollocks!

Sorry about your cat Pip.






You couldn't be any more boring.

You can always skip over my posts. No problem to me, Sunshine. Meanwhile, go and get fucked!

pippin wrote:

AllahBlowsPigs wrote:

pippin wrote:

When we reach 70 we are of no further use to the community. We just drain public funds to keep us alive. Isn't that right, Pops? I just want to get back to my Voodoo Princess's pussy. She stormed out of the Prince of Darkness's palace, where she had a chamber, when the mad old bat, Emmanuelle, turned up. Partly my fault 'cause I stayed away to avoid the old bint. Had I been there when the cat fight started, I would have taken my Princess to my home. A glorious fuck up, bollocks!

You couldn't be any more boring.

You can always skip over my posts. No problem to me, Sunshine. Meanwhile, go and get fucked!

FuhkFrenchToads wrote:

Unethical, by any and all means. Whoever proposes the idea that the old must be replaced promptly.... needs to be dragged out to the middle of a street, doused in gasoline, and lit up.... only long enough to cause blindness and pain... then extinguished.... bathed in honey, and tied down to the ground near an ant hole, and left there to die of dehydration, ant bites and sun exposure in the next 3 most horribly painful days possible.

Just as the life of a fetus is not even a question in conservative circles.... so is the same as the life of an elder.

If you wanna know what I'd do about someone proposing to kill elders.. read again the first paragraph.

lookanlearn wrote:

FuhkFrenchToads wrote:

Unethical, by any and all means. Whoever proposes the idea that the old must be replaced promptly.... needs to be dragged out to the middle of a street, doused in gasoline, and lit up.... only long enough to cause blindness and pain... then extinguished.... bathed in honey, and tied down to the ground near an ant hole, and left there to die of dehydration, ant bites and sun exposure in the next 3 most horribly painful days possible.

Just as the life of a fetus is not even a question in conservative circles.... so is the same as the life of an elder.

If you wanna know what I'd do about someone proposing to kill elders.. read again the first paragraph.

Are you going to personally fund people who are just about to die?

NOZZLE wrote:

The old people that are mouldering around burning up either inheritance money or public assets should be put on an iceberg and shoved out to sea.

The geezers that you are talking about who are worthless food wasting pieces of shit today were the same worthless pieces of shit 40 years ago.

My neighbor down the road croaked at the age of 91, up until then, you would see him on the hottest day of summer slinging bales of straw, operating a combine from 6am to 8pm during harvest season and so forth.

The pieces of shit who sit around all day long who hit the road at 10:00 am to go to one doctors appointment after another need to fucking die.

Enough of this shit of keeping these worthless geezers alive,

When we reach 70 we are of no further use to the community.

TexanForever wrote:

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... this is fine unless you happen to be that old geezer who worked hard all his life, perhaps after defending his nation on a battlefield or in a Spitfire, payed into the system for years, thinking he would be lovingly cared for after a stroke.


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