>>>The Liverpool Care "Death" Pathway is being phased out, the NHS is under scrutiny for a culture which leads to mistreatment in the care of people with disabilities.
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>>>The British High Court has decided to let hospitals (with judges consent, aka CYA) decide who lives and dies regardless of the family's wishes.
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>>>http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MED_BRITAIN_WITHHOLDING_TREATMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-30-07-25-07
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>>>Britain's highest court has ruled in favor of a hospital that gained court approval to withhold treatment from a terminally ill man despite the family's opposition.
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>>>What a lovely culture the west is reverting to.
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>>The Liverpool pathway was about managing someones road to death mainly to reduce suffering.
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>The idea of the LCP was as you describe, in practice it was used as an excuse to accelerate patients' expiration.
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>>It wasn't a death panel
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>Tell it to Andrew Flanagan.
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>There is a reason it is being mothballed. Not that it matters thanks to the High Court.
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>I repeat, what a lovely culture we're reverting to.

With medical science able to keep almost anyone alive its inevitable.
Years ago gramps might have passed away peacefully upstairs now he'd be carted off to hospital. My father really would have preferred to die at home and we didn't manage to make that happen for him.