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Comments on: In praise of the NHS http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/04/in-praise-of-the-nhs/ As fair-minded and non-partisan as Torquemada. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:16:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Squander Two http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/04/in-praise-of-the-nhs/#comment-3163 Mon, 18 Apr 2005 05:56:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=980#comment-3163 Where this theory all falls apart is the huge number of people who have been told by doctors that they only have a few weeks or months to live and are still alive many years later. If you give doctors the right to withhold treatment from those who they don’t think have a life ahead of them, we’ll never know how wrong they are.

]]> By: Benjamin http://sbbs.johnband.org/2005/04/in-praise-of-the-nhs/#comment-3161 Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:41:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=980#comment-3161 John

This is hugely sensitive and difficult subject, and rightly so.

You are right to say that euthanasia needs discussing and it needs to be very well regulated and properly above board.

And whilst you rightly say that resources need to be spent on the younger members of society – they are the future after all – another argument can be made simultaneously.

That is old people have paid into the pot for a longer period, contributed in many ways all their working life (which can be long.)

They then deserve a good standard of treatment to live, or treatment to die, above board and with transparency.

So some sort of correct balance needs to be found.

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