Reports of this latest 'benefits death' have led me to learn of -
UK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014 | Black Triangle Campaign
About Black Triangle | Black Triangle Campaign
extract -
'The Nazis forced people with mental and other disabilities to wear black triangles in the extermination camps during the Holocaust. The generic classification they used was “Arbeitsscheu” – literally “Workshy”. This term is also the one most favoured in our right-wing tabloid press to described incapacity and disability benefit claimants today.'
We can no longer regard our society as civilised - we just use more subtle methods of execution than some others.