Staff members at a Tenet hospital in New Orleans may have euthanized some patients during Hurricane Katrina:
The Louisiana Attorney General is also continuing his investigation into whether some staff at Memorial Medical Center may have euthanized patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Tenet Healthcare, the parent company, said it is cooperating with the investigation.
This quote was buried in this article about a family whose mother died in that hospital's care. (She was not euthanized.)
This is an example of what happens when euthanasia is taken seriously: People start to take liberties with it. First it's, "I want my right to die, dang it!" Then it's, "He wants his right to die, dang it!" Then it's, "Of course he wants to exercise his Constitutionally-GuaranteedTM right to die", and off you go. Pretty soon it becomes as routine a circumcision for a newborn. "Oh, you mean you don't want him to be circumcised? Quickly, fill out these forms in triplicate."
To tie this in with the recent post on population growth, if you are in a society with many fewer able-bodied workers than retirees, you are going to get pressure to stabilize the population — and as far as I can tell, the only way to do that is to euthanize the old folks. And that's not good!
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