Daily Kos: Culture of Life: Pull the plug on conscious patients - W's law.

[pyoor_excuse]

Daily Kos: Culture of Life: Pull the plug on conscious patients - W's law.

Jesus fucking christ.

Comments

[chrisy-m-uk.livejournal.com]

Bloody Hellfire... How can anyone even contemplate doing that? *adds to the list of reasons why she is NEVER going to live in the US*

[pyoor_excuse]

It's depressing and terrifying at the same time.

I can't imagine what pressure you'd have to apply to a doctor to make them *kill* someone else. I mean, it's against the Hippocratic Oath (playing God in the modern version, I suppose; definately a failure to keep them from harm and injustice in the traditional one).

Yes, she was going to die, and if she'd *wanted* the ventilator switched off, that would have been okay with me; but to kill her when she wanted to remain alive until she'd seen her mother again? It's just evil.