UK Hospitals: Killing, Not Caring

This is what the culture of death brings – loved ones keeping a patient alive – in a hospital – after the hospital decided to kill the patient by hydration. Horrific - and true.

A pathway to euthanasia? Family revive father doctors ruled wasn't worth saving

The family of a 48-year-old man have told how they rescued him from dying on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway by reviving him with drops of water.

Andy Flanagan’s family were told that he was severely brain damaged, had organ failure and was close to death after a cardiac arrest.

They gathered at his bedside to say their goodbyes after the hospital withdrew fluids and said it was going to let him ‘slip away’. more

UK: Liverpool Death Pathway Invites Abuse

Let's just call the Liverpool Care Pathway what it is: A roadmap to "help" people die that is a grand opportunity for abuse - none more so than in this report that says patients are being placed on the "Pathway" without the consent of family or loved ones.

NHS must come clean over use of 'death pathway'

Thousands of patients in the NHS are put onto the Liverpool Care Pathway each year in their last days and hours.

It aims to give patients a 'good death' by avoiding unnecessary and burdensome medical intervention but there have been accusations it hastens death because it can involve the removal of artifical hydration and nutrition. more