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Margaret Pilkington · 19-05-2005, 19:02

Do we have our values a bit cockeyed....?
A guy with Cerebral Ataxia has to go to court to establish his right to treatment.........and to fight Doctors attempts at the end of his life to starve him of nourishment and water.......and this decision is being made on a financial basis.
In effect, if your illness is terminal, the Doctors reserve the right to refuse 'treatment' because it costs £1500 per day to maintain a high dependency patient.......but Kamal Bourgass.....a terrorist,and a murderer can be kept in one of our prisons (regardless of cost) for the rest of his life.
Seems somewhat unfair to me.......What do you think....?

19-05-2005, 19:02	#1
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