{"id":20388,"date":"2023-09-28T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20388"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:57:49","slug":"quick-takes-death-lust-of-the-british-nhs-mandatory-death-for-adults-mandatory-death-being-hidden-mandatory-death-for-infants-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/09\/28\/quick-takes-death-lust-of-the-british-nhs-mandatory-death-for-adults-mandatory-death-being-hidden-mandatory-death-for-infants-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Death Lust Of The British NHS: Mandatory Death For Adults; Mandatory Death Being Hidden; Mandatory Death For Infants Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Medicinal executioner offers to reprieve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xdE4RO_P-qE?si=7_U3yghvTSJ3kN_1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" alt=\"Death, Rx\" width=\"287\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The U.K.\u2019s National Health Service (NHS) has often overruled parents and forcibly let babies die horrible deaths. Now, even an adult in their right mind can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/u-k-court-rules-hospitalized-young-woman-cant-decide-to-die-trying-to-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forced to die<\/a> by the \u201cvaunted\u201d NHS.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c[A]conscious and capable 19-year-old patient, referred to in legal documents as \u201cST,\u201d with an apparent terminal disease has been told by a court that she can\u2019t decide to continue life-extending treatment after the hospital sued to be able to move her to palliative care against her will. From the legal ruling involving the National Health Service Trust (my emphasis added):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018The Trust\u2019s case is that ST is \u201cactively dying\u201d. It became clear during the course of the oral evidence I heard from Dr A, the consultant leading her care on the ITU, that this assessment does not mean that her death is necessarily imminent. She may have weeks or even months to live. The exact prognosis is uncertain. What is clear from clinical observation is that she has progressive respiratory failure with episodes of acute exacerbation resulting in breathlessness, distress and agitation. The current care plan is based upon the withdrawal of haemodialysis although ventilation will continue.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cST is aware of this but wants to keep fighting for her life. Again, from the ruling, by the justice presiding over the case:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Despite all the difficulties which currently confront her, ST is able to communicate reasonably well with her doctors with assistance from her mother and, on occasion, speech therapists. Over the course of the last week she has engaged in two separate capacity assessments. I heard evidence from two consultant psychiatrists whose conclusions in relation to her capacity in both domains are set out in full written reports. . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018She has been described by those who know and love her as \u201ca fighter\u201d. That is how she sees herself. At the heart of the issues in this case is what ST and her family perceive to be a ray of hope in the form of an experimental nucleoside treatment outside the United Kingdom which might offer her hope of an improved quality of life, albeit a life which is likely to end prematurely in terms of a normal life expectancy. She has told her doctors that she wants to do everything she can to extend her life. She said to Dr C, one of the psychiatrists who visited her last week, \u201cThis is my wish. I want to die trying to live. We have to try everything\u201d. [Court\u2019s emphasis] Whilst she recognises that she may not benefit from further treatment, she is resistant to any attempt to move to a regime of palliative care because she wants to stay alive long enough to be able to travel to Canada or North America where there is at least the prospect that she may be accepted as part of a clinical trial. . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018ST is well aware that she has been offered a very poor prognosis by her doctors. She acknowledges that they have told her that she will die but she does not believe them. She points to her recovery from previous life-threatening episodes whilst she has been a patient at the intensive care unit. She believes she has the resilience and the strength to stay alive for long enough to undergo treatment abroad and she wishes the court to acknowledge her right to make that decision for herself.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf patient autonomy is to mean anything, why object? Because even though two psychiatrists told the court that ST has decision-making capacity, the court ruled that she doesn\u2019t because she won\u2019t accept that there is no hope\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That patient \u201cST\u201d did die as the NHS commanded. So proud they were that they sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/teenager-who-died-after-nhs-legal-battle-over-treatment-allowed-to-be-named-12967502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">silence her family<\/a> from talking about it. However, the family (somehow) won a court battle to openly talk about their own daughter and her death.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA 19-year-old who died after a legal battle with an NHS Trust over her treatment has been named.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSudiksha Thirumalesh had a rare mitochondrial disorder. She launched a legal case against an unnamed NHS Trust over whether she should be moved onto palliative care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHer family returned to the Court of Protection on Friday in a successful bid to allow her to be named publicly in relation to the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018It&#8217;s like drowning. She is able to sense what is happening,\u2019 Vikram Sachdeva KC told the court in July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe patient died on 12 September after a respiratory and cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMr Justice Peel is expected to rule on Monday about whether the NHS Trust and clinicians who treated her can be named.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSpeaking outside of the Royal Courts of Justice in London after Friday&#8217;s hearing, the teenager&#8217;s brother, Varshan Chellamal Thirumalesh, said the family had been &#8220;gagged&#8221; and \u2018intimidated\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018After a year of struggle and heartache we can finally say our beautiful daughter and sister&#8217;s name in public without fear: She is Sudiksha. She is Sudiksha Thirumalesh &#8211; not ST,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And yes, the NHS is still <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/jHVGr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing babies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cReaders will remember the tragic case of Charlie Gard, a baby boy in the U.K. who was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. Doctors at London\u2019s Great Ormond Street Hospital told Charlie\u2019s parents that his condition was incurable and he had no hope of survival. But his parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, found a doctor in New York who was willing to treat Charlie with an experimental therapy. Gard and Yates raised around $1.6 million through crowdfunding to cover the costs, but the London hospital argued that this was not in Charlie\u2019s best interests, and that he should be removed from life support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTrump\u2019s Disgusting Post about Liberal Jews Who \u2018Voted to Destroy America\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hospital took Charlie\u2019s parents to court where a judge agreed with its decision. Charlie was removed from life support and died soon after.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn the aftermath of their son\u2019s death, Gard and Yates have campaigned for \u2018Charlie\u2019s Law\u2019 \u2014 legal reform that would \u2018prevent further long and painful conflicts between hospitals and families with sick children.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe need for such legislation has become clearer in subsequent cases. First, there was Alfie Evans, a toddler who died in 2018 at the end of a similar legal dispute which his doctors ultimately won.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd now with Indi Gregory, a six-month-old baby being treated for the same rare genetic disorder Charlie Gard had, which doctors say she cannot survive and argue that further life support would only prolong her suffering. Her parents disagree. Once again, it will be down to a judge \u2014 and not them \u2014 to decide a baby\u2019s fate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Death Lust Of The British NHS: Mandatory Death For Adults; Mandatory Death Being Hidden; Mandatory Death For Infants Too\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Medicinal executioner offers to reprieve.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Medicinal executioner offers to reprieve. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/09\/28\/quick-takes-death-lust-of-the-british-nhs-mandatory-death-for-adults-mandatory-death-being-hidden-mandatory-death-for-infants-too\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[9,42,10,69,35],"class_list":["post-20388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-europe","tag-mood-music","tag-nhs","tag-quick-takes","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20389,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388\/revisions\/20389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}