Deep Kimchi
23-02-2006, 01:36
From NPR, not some right-wing source...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5220802
It's rather astonishing to hear that doctors and other staff were contemplating (or may have) killing their patients. While I don't have a problem with people who are essentially near death with no hope of recovery exercising a pre-written choice not to be resuscitated or put to sleep, it's a bit bizarre to hear doctors planning to get rid of their patients so that they can escape.
Doesn't seem like "mercy" to me. Looks like the acts of desperate people who couldn't come up with even a basic plan to evacuate the patients and themselves from the hospital.
It's not like they didn't know the hurricane was coming for several days in advance.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5220802
It's rather astonishing to hear that doctors and other staff were contemplating (or may have) killing their patients. While I don't have a problem with people who are essentially near death with no hope of recovery exercising a pre-written choice not to be resuscitated or put to sleep, it's a bit bizarre to hear doctors planning to get rid of their patients so that they can escape.
Doesn't seem like "mercy" to me. Looks like the acts of desperate people who couldn't come up with even a basic plan to evacuate the patients and themselves from the hospital.
It's not like they didn't know the hurricane was coming for several days in advance.