Families out in the cold because of pathway to the grave
How cheaply our society values the lives of the elderly and vulnerable.
In a disturbing report on the so-called Liverpool Care Pathway - the guidelines under which terminally-ill patients are left to die - it emerges that a quarter of families are never told when life support is removed from their loved ones.
Families deserve to be consulted before doctors switch off the life support of their loved one (file picture)
Yet these same guidelines have been strongly attacked by experts, who say patients may be denied food and drink even when they are not close to death.
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Don't we all, without exception, deserve the basic protection that our relatives should be consulted before doctors switch off our life support?
Or would that interfere with Britain's relentless march towards euthanasia by the back door?
