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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Old People With Dementia Have A Duty To Die And Should Be Pushed Towards Death, says Baroness Warnock

Elderly people with dementia are 'wasting' the lives of those who have to care for them, one of the country's most influential experts on medical ethics said yesterday.
Baroness Warnock said that for the old and sick who are contemplating dying, 'there is nothing wrong with feeling you ought to do so'.
Her remarks in an interview with a church journal were the first public suggestion from any expert with close links to Whitehall that euthanasia should not only be legal but that elderly people should be pressed towards death.
Lady Warnock said: 'If you are demented, you are wasting people's lives, your family's lives, and you are wasting the resources of the National Health Service.'
Her remarks were condemned as 'shocking ignorance' and 'barbaric' by Alzheimer's charities.

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I'd like to push her towards death, preferably off the edge of a 500 ft cliff !!

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