From the Telegraph:
Eleven elderly patients on the same hospital ward were deliberately starved to death, an inquest was told yesterday.HT: SherriThe patients, all men aged between 67 and 93, died after having their food and drink needlessly withdrawn, according to relatives.
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Dr Claire Royston, a consultant psychiatrist, said that doctors often allow terminally ill patients to starve to death by deliberately stopping their food. She said dementia suffers often forget how to eat, leading to the risk of food going down the windpipe instead of the throats, causing choking or leading to pneumonia.
"She said dementia suffers often forget how to eat, leading to the risk of food going down the windpipe instead of the throats, causing choking or leading to pneumonia."
What golden logic. The excuse is that the risk of choking or pneumonia is plenty of reason to go ahead and starve people to death!
And these foggyheaded experts have the power of life and death -- correction, the power of death.