BREAKING NEWS: Care homes in the UK caught using death penalty drugs, was this to artificially bump the COVID numbers up?
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I think hastening people's departure is a common occurrence in hospitals and nursing homes. There is a fine line between making terminally ill patients comfortable and making sick people sick enough to die...it's all about the $$$$, especially when they die with covid. The hospitals should be paid when people recover, not when they die...I think we'd see definite improvement...
Yes "it's all about the $$$$" - For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows - 1 Timothy 6:10
This is true. Morphine is used to hasten death. It is not "care".
Yes...when my dad died (Alzheimer's) I questioned the morphine...he was terminal...but the morphine is supposed to help them relax so they more easily pass, which may be true. But morphine can damage the kidneys, which is usually what causes a patient to die...it is vicious cycle...
First of all, you can refuse any medication you wish to refuse in hospice, although COVID patients were not afforded this basic right in hospitals. Second, any and all meds damage the kidneys and liver to some extent. Third, most patients in hospice don't die from medication-induced kidney failure. The normal stages of death are a process of shutting down the body. The extremities are the first to go - feet, hands, legs, arms - you can see the mottling process as the body shuts down support. The next to go are the reproductive and digestive organs, including the intestines, kidneys, liver, pancreas, stomach, etc. This is why patients start refusing food and water, and they start sleeping more. Their bodies stop processing food and water to preserve resources for the heart, lungs, and brain. For non-cancer patients, morphine helps with the pain, anxiety, and shortness of breath with the last stages as the heart, lungs, and finally the brain shut down. For cancer patients, morphine helps to relieve severe and intractable cancer pain. It is administered orally, and the family and the patient are in charge of administration. They can refuse it at any time.
I agree with everything you said and you really have made a great statement concerning the process of death, which I have witnessed several times. I think we were questioning whether morphine could be given in high enough doses to speed up death as opposed to being therapeutic to ease the pain and anxiety during the transition from life to death. But this is really a great comment on the process. My daughter has worked hospice for over 10 years and we have had many good discussions on the process of death and medications used...
My hardest was the death of my beautiful 39 year old sister who died of breast cancer in '92. She looked like the worst concentration camp inmate you could ever imagine...that was hard.
I have seen at least 10 births and I have to say those are usually more joyous occasions. God bless you...have a great day...
My father passed in Nov finally of dementia but also heart disease. He was 85. His death for me was very hard to witness.. but he was dying, and couldn't eat or take fluids at the very end. I allowed him to have some morphine at the very end - he was already mottling and hospice really was kind and helped.
My poor Dad had violent outbursts in his last month. He broke down a door. He pushed a patient out of their bed and destroyed his room. We ultimately had to relent to some psych meds just to keep him contained. I really didn't want him on meds but sometimes you just have to use them. It's all about balance, and using drugs wisely.
It was awful to see him like that...and he too got so thin towards the very end. But I researched the dying process and learned about everything you mentioned above. About a week or so before he died, you couldn't get him to eat or even really take fluids - he'd push it away. I learned that if we forced liquids on him he'd aspirate and suffer more. I guess it's about understanding when someone is "actively dying" vs. not - and that was all new to me. I had to learn about this as it's not something most of us even know about!
I was very grateful for the hospice team - they were incredibly kind and helpful. Thanks for your comment too - it's good for people to know the difference between actively dying and a person who isn't dying.
both my parents died of dementia/alzheimers. At some point they refuse food and medications and become very difficult to arouse. They fade away quickly. In the final stages their bodies tend to stiffen, and any movement was quite painful. Both in hospice and given the order for oral morphine. It was given to keep them out of pain. It is possible it pushed them over the edge, but they were ready to pass, death rattles, etc.
Yes same with my Dad - I just posted my experience above. Same thing - but incredibly hard to witness. hugs
Yes I agree...but I do not think...no, I know... all cases were not as clear cut as what you or I experienced...
I am telling you...I want to avoid that route of death at ALL costs...it is a horribly tragic way to die...
There was no time for kidney damage to take place with my parents.
Absolutely not true. People in home hospice use morphine for extended periods of time depending on their condition. Nursing visits them in their homes at least 2-3 times per week and monitors the patient, family, and controlled substance use. When used properly, it provides comfort during the last stages of life, when the body is shutting down but the patient is still aware of pain and shortness of breath. When the body shuts down, the patient feels like they are suffocating and they get anxious and panicked. Morphine helps to slow the respiratory rate, suppress cough reflex, and ease pain and discomfort.
Absolutely true. No one was trying to prolong the lives of my parents so the family could have more time with them. Also, some of these hospice people are absolutely ghoulish. You run in to all kinds.
I’ve heard my dad mention this. When hospice comes in, the person is dead soon. Not comfortable. Dead.
Of course patients in hospice die soon. Only those with a 6-month prognosis are admitted to hospice, and to remain in hospice, they need to show either no improvement or actual decline. Hospice provides in-home care so that dying patients and their families spend their last days together, resolve any past issues, get their affairs in order, etc. They are supported with aides for bathing and personal care, nurses for progress and medication monitoring, social workers, chaplains, and supervising physicians. The patient and family are in charge of medication administration, and they can refuse it at any time. They can revoke hospice any time. Hospice is not assisted euthanasia. There are patients that actually improve on hospice and are then discharged.
Generally Hospice does not accept a pt unless they believe death is imminent, usually less than 6 months I believe. If a pt improves, they are removed from hospice care, so I was told by the hospice people.
Exactly.
Yup. Human history has shown clearly that if humans are given a powerful motivation to kill others, plus the physical means, plus a reward for so doing, they can be relied on to kill.
Similarly as right now, the pedos and traitors and other arch criminals running the world need to die, we have the means, and the reward will be Biblically glorious.
Yup. The US government has been training/preparing doctors to carry out the killings for decades.
They (Medicare and medicaid plus federal workers health insurance, over half of hospital cash flow) set "protocols" for every treatment.
Feds: "You must try 'a', THEN 'b', THEN 'c', if you want treatment 'x'. If you don't do it IN THAT ORDER, we won't pay you for any of the treatments, not just 'x'.'
There are nurses-in-a-suit in every hospital system that never see a patient, but only check to see that those protocols are being followed. eg, Sending emails to the cardiologist "No surgery 'x' approval from the hospital. You missed the 'b' testing and 'c' therapy. Hurry up and get that done or else 'a', 'b', 'c' and 'x' won't be paid for."
Drs/hospitals learned 15-20 years ago that they must always follow protocols or financial disaster for them. The government also penalizes some government payments to them if the protocols aren't followed on ALL (even private pay) patients.
So when COVID protocols were presented, plus the carrot of EXTRA payments to kill people, the Doc and hospital administrators obeyed without a thought.
The "I'm the doctor, I'LL decide what's best for my patient" ethic was killed long ago. By design.
Somebody put a hell of a lot of thought into weaponizing our medical system, turning medical professionals into sleeper agents, ready to kill on command.
You'd think with the exorbitant rates nursing homes charge it would be more profitable to keep their charges alive
You'd think...
I think this may have happened with the increased financial incentives with COVID, especially in hospitals. Most hospitals discharge patients as soon as possible because insurance will not pay for extended stays, which is why they are discharged to nursing homes or rehab. If they are discharged home, they end up right back in the hospital. Usually nursing homes and rehab make their money while the patient is there, but they may also have received the extra COVID death payments.