In places where legal euthanasia is completely banned, governments suddenly started pushing palliative protocols real hard over the last few years. They call it compassionate care, but if you look at what actually happens, it feels like a total loophole. First, they stop giving patients basic hydration and nutrition under the excuse of "stopping aggressive treatment," which speeds up organ failure faster than the actual disease would. At the same time, they pump patients full of heavy sedatives and painkillers that suppress breathing until the body just gives up. Hospital stays are extremely expensive and take up valuable space, so by branding this rapid decline as "comfort care," they get to clear out long-term patients, save massive amounts of money, and keep their official euthanasia numbers at zero without having to change a single law.
Posted by eyyov
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You do realize that you can still receive palliative care even when you’re not dying or at the end-of-life right? Do you know that you can even get it as an out-patient?
How can they use palliative care as a secret euthanasia to clear hospital beds when you’re an out-patient that is not actively dying?
Yeah obviously. Are you confused on what either means?
Palative care is often the only way to get “the good drugs”
Its the truth, and it’s terrible.
That’s just the truth. A medicated and painless truth.
I could never be so lucky. 😞
I’m more worried about hospitals keeping people alive when they are well passed when they should have passed away already. Thereby draining bank accounts and making more money off dying/dead people.
i don’t know why we don’t have euthanasia. we put our pets out of their misery because it’s “inhumane” to let them suffer. so why do we let humans suffer? is that not inhumane?
Well I have two loved ones on palliative care at the minute and in fairness I wouldn’t want them out of it for their own sakes. Both are very very old and I can only imagine the pain and discomfort they’d be in without it. Is it not an easier way to go? In my country assisted euthanasia isn’t an option so it’s the next best thing when your condition gets too grave to treat.
Sometimes it’s time to let go. Continuing to pour resources and time into a patient that will only extend their suffering is unethical. Euthanasia isn’t legal in some places, so this is the option we have. Do you not like the concept ?
Palliative care is caring for people who are dieing. How is just clearing hospital beds? If that was the aim just sent them to die at home
Hospitals discharge patients at end of life to prevent causality numbers they’d have to explain. And yes, hospital beds are expensive so high turnover is key to making a ton of money.
There should be so many *more* patients on comfort care
We already prolong life in the US with futile care longer than essentially any other modern country in the world
There was a video I saw a while back…some guy was secretly recording a woman confessing to killing her father. She was a hospice nurse if I recall correctly (I’m not sure if hospice care and palliative care are the same) Anyways, she tries to justify killing her father by calling it euthanasia. and she says something along the lines of “We (her coworkers) do it all the time! We give people a high dose of morphine and just let them die.” It was so disturbing to hear someone admit that so matter of factly. So, yes, I would say in general it’s not secret euthanasia but I think it happens way more than we could imagine by wreckless nurses who are given access and unsupervised authority to give strong drugs as they please. I mean who would even suspect it? They are already dying so these murders go unnoticed. Really sad.